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...open Communist North Korea seemed to be working. In a private session, the visitors warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with North Korea. Sit down with the opposition leaders, they urged, and forge a national consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party politics and be more presidential. Says Park Jong Wha, a Presbyterian church leader: "I told him, You are the Nobel prizewinner. You should focus on becoming an elder statesman. You should be like South Africa's Nelson Mandela...
...United Liberal Democrats, over disagreements on dealing with the North. It was just the latest blow to a faltering presidency, one whose fate interests more than Koreans. Nobody has done more to bring North Korea in from the cold. But Kim's attempts to improve relations with Pyongyang have been stalled for months, an impasse that concerns Washington, Beijing, Tokyo and Moscow. The Korean economy is faltering. GDP growth is expected to fall by more than half this year, to 4%, the rock bottom by Korean standards, and Korea's exports are slowing fast. For the 15 months left...
...became President in 1998, expectations were high. As Korea's best-known pro-democracy activist, he had been jailed, beaten and nearly executed by Korea's military strongmen. After finally making it to the Blue House, he wasted no time in launching a peace offensive and flying to Pyongyang in June 2000 for a historic summit. At the awards ceremony in Oslo last October, the chairman of the Nobel committee compared Kim to Mandela and Gandhi...
...relations with the North. Both issues are now killing him politically. Last week the legislature voted to oust Kim's closest aide, Unification Minister Lim Dong Won, after he allowed a left-wing delegation to travel to the North, where they disobeyed government orders not to participate in pro-Pyongyang propaganda events. Defecting to the opposition, junior coalition partner Kim Jong Pil engineered the no-confidence vote, destroying the ruling alliance. Kim quickly replaced five ministers, but with 15 months left in his term, Kim will likely become a lame-duck President heading a minority government...
...were high, perhaps too high, because of his remarkable rEsumE. The country's leading pro-democracy activist, he had endured jailings, beatings and a near execution by Korea's military strongmen. Arriving at the Blue House, he wasted no time launching his peace offensive toward North Korea, flying to Pyongyang last June for a landmark summit. At the awards ceremony in Oslo last October, the chairman of the Nobel committee compared Kim to Mandela, Sakharov and Gandhi: "To outside observers, Kim's invincible spirit may appear almost superhuman." But after a honeymoon, Kim the admired dissident has morphed...