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...Upsets are welcome at the Olympics, so long as Americans come out of top. Rulon Gardner winning wrestling gold in Sydney was inspirational. The Soviet Union beating the U.S. men's basketball team in Seoul failed to inspire anything but the creation of the Dream Team...
...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 - the tenor of statements emanating from the North Korean capital suggested otherwise. A Pyongyang...
...With Washington and Seoul somewhat out of alignment over how to deal with the North, much now depends on President Kim's ability to rally South Korean voters, many of whom have begun to question just how much their country is gaining from the "Sunshine Policy." Even more important, though, may be the reaction of China. Beijing, which maintains close ties with both the North Korean regime and President Kim's administration in the South, has played a major role in facilitating the rapprochement between the two Koreas - a scenario from which its stands to benefit both economically and strategically...
...thaw between the two Koreas is opening up avenues to trade. Last year Seoul eased restrictions on the import of cultural goods, which ?allowed Baik Soung Ook, president of Deshine.com, to buy the rights to seven animated films produced at Pyongyang's 425 Studio. "Everybody thinks these films must be tainted by ideology," says Baik. "Actually they are very educational." Some are obvious parables of Kim Jong Il's life, but one features an apolitical silver rabbit that Baik hopes to merchandise in South Korea. "My hope is that children in North and South Korea can share the same movies...
...high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen as contributing to international peace...