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...North Korea has lately been sending signals that it might not cooperate with that prediction. During his July 19 visit to Pyongyang, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that strongman Kim Jong Il had told him North Korea would shelve its intercontinental ballistic missile program if other countries would launch several of its satellites at their expense. Washington was skeptical. Was Kim making the offer? Or was this an offer Putin hoped he would make so Moscow could derail the U.S. missile defense plan, which it opposes...
...Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met North Korean foreign minister Paek Nam Sun at a conference in Bangkok. Paek told Albright he could say nothing about Kim's offer. American diplomats say either Kim never made the offer or he simply hadn't told Paek about his conversation with Putin. The latter is possible since U.S. officials believe that Paek is only a flunky; Kim runs the country's foreign policy...
...this photograph Vladimir Putin...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN: His signature is illegible, which shows a very private side. This is someone who is tense, ready to act at a moment's notice...
...does he like jazz? Western leaders still trying to get a read on Putin were encouraged that the new Russian leader seems to be pragmatic and realistic. While the mercurial Boris Yeltsin "was a great story, he was not a great interlocutor," said one U.S. official. "The other leaders were happy to have a Russian leader they can deal with on a non-emotional basis." Putin also displayed a certain wry sense of irony. He had just come from North Korea, where he was greeted by an outpouring of 1 million citizens - not all there voluntarily, he allowed to Clinton...