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Last week President Bush blew a few dark clouds over President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with North Korea. And those clouds burst on Tuesday, as the North Koreans canceled a long-scheduled cabinet-level meeting with their South Korean counterparts to prepare for a planned visit by the communist state's "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, to Seoul in the spring. Although no reason was provided for the cancellation - and it could simply be another quirky rescheduling, as when the North Koreans postponed last year's historic visit to Pyongyang by a couple of days...
...South Korean leader had gone to Washington to urge President Bush to quickly pursue talks started by the Clinton administration aimed at normalizing relations with North Korea and ending the impoverished communist state's missile program in exchange for economic assistance. But President Kim found the Bush administration skeptical of the Clinton approach - and by implication, of South Korea's own efforts at reconciliation. In particular, the Bush team was anxious to reopen negotiations over the 1994 agreement between North Korea and Japan, South Korea and the U.S. to provide energy assistance in exchange for the dismantling of North Korea...
...Washington's slap-down left the South Korean leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has made reconciliation with the North the centerpiece of his presidency, high and dry. President Kim had warned that the a tougher line from the U.S. would drive North Korea's leader back into his reclusive and unpredictable shell, and that point appeared to be underscored by Pyongyang's decision to cancel Tuesday's talks. And a fit of diplomatic pique may be the best-case scenario - the South Koreans are concerned that if North Korea perceives a more hostile shift in Washington...
Sounds like perfectly normal behavior to us--except maybe the fantasies about Kim Basinger...
DIVORCING. Triple Grammy winner EMINEM, 28, and on-again, off-again wife KIM MATHERS, 26; in Macomb County, Mich. The couple have a 5-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade...