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...losers." Nevertheless, for those who insist on keeping score, the clear winner in the latest round of the 15-month nuclear dispute was former President Jimmy Carter. The Administration had kept its distance and whispered its skepticism when Carter went to Pyongyang two weeks ago and claimed that President Kim Il Sung was ready for a negotiated deal. But last Wednesday the North Koreans confirmed in writing that they will freeze their nuclear program while talks are under way. With that news, Clinton had to embrace Carter, at least figuratively. "We have the basis to go forward," Clinton said...
...Kim told Carter he would stick to his freeze as long as the U.S. was making "a good-faith effort" to work out a settlement. If last week's letter from Pyongyang contained any more specific time limit, it was not announced. But since the fuel rods are too radioactive to be processed for several weeks anyway, the two sides have a window of opportunity to determine how good the good faith is and to decide whether their resumed diplomacy promises to produce a settlement...
...short run both Presidents benefit from their decision to reopen formal talks in Geneva, set to begin next week. Kim takes the steam out of the rising crisis over his apparent effort to build nuclear weapons and diverts the world's attention to what Washington might offer him at the bargaining table. For his part, Clinton wins a respite from his effort to round up support for U.N. sanctions against North Korea -- a campaign that was not going well. If Clinton has to try for sanctions again later, he will be able to say to reluctant countries like China...
During their three days of photogenic negotiating in Pyongyang, Carter did not get Kim to address the issue that produced the crisis in the first place: North Korea's refusal to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency do their job. Even now the Koreans are portraying as a concession their willingness to let two inspectors keep watch on the fuel rods lying in water- filled pools. The battle over full inspections has been swept, along with other economic and diplomatic questions, into the new round of talks...
...Kim and Carter hug; Clinton asks for clarification...