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...South Korea is one of Asia's long-term economic success stories, and North Korea represents opportunities for its economic expansion into a global powerhouse. A majority of its electorate clearly favors moves toward reunification, which has always been a central theme of President Kim Dae Jung's political platform, and skeptics will have been quieted by the overwhelming enthusiasm the summit generated among South Koreans. But once the dewy afterglow has subsided, years of tough negotiations lie ahead, and Seoul will be in no hurry to relinquish U.S. protection in the interim. And Seoul has it reasons in taking...
...anybody surprised that North Korea's "Dear Leader" has a sense of humor? After all, Kim Jong Il has signed off on official biographies that include achievements as diverse as hitting five bottles with a pistol in his left hand at 50 yards and writing six operas in two years (along with his steady output of more familiar tracts such as "Let Us Establish More Firmly the Monolithic Ideological System in the Whole Party and Society"). The leader of the hermetically sealed communist holdover had his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Dae Jung, in stitches Wednesday as he spoofed Western...
...Post-Cold War realignments that have seen both Russia and China abandoning their traditional hostility to Seoul and building ever-closer relations with South Korea have left the Dear Leader little choice but to make nice with the South. And, of course, it helps that Seoul's leader, President Kim Dae Jung, spent years in a South Korean prison for advocating such dissident ideas as democracy and reunification. But neither man, right now, has much reason to rush...
...handshake was an epic gesture of mutual recognition of each other's legitimacy, which neither side has been prepared to make over decades of low-intensity war and sullen peace. President Kim backed it up with a statement, released to the media, which proclaimed, "Compatriots in the North: We are one people. We share the same fate. Let us hold hands firmly. I love you all." The two men then climbed into a limousine that carried them off to talks at an undisclosed location, reportedly holding hands for much of the journey...
...cease-fire agreement rather than any mutual recognition treaty. After all, while there are grounds for optimism on areas such as allowing family reunions across that cease-fire line and economic aid from the prosperous South to the famine-stricken North, progress may be slower when President Kim urges his host to curb a missile program that has put North Korea at the top of Washington's "rogue state" charts, and when Dear Leader Kim suggests that his guest get rid of the 30,000 U.S. troops dug in along the cease-fire line. Deep differences, in other words...