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...nuclear program to international inspectors. Lee Se-ki, chief policymaker of the governing Democratic Liberal Party in South Korea, said in a report to a party meeting that the U.S. has offered to wait five years before conducting a full inspection on its operations -- something that may anger Seoul. Both U.S. and North Korean officials refused comment. The talks are expected to be completed tomorrow...
...current impasse may also be dictated by uncertainty in Pyongyang. Donald Gregg, former U.S. ambassador to Seoul, suggests that Kim Jong Il "is asking for the world, because he has seen how highly we value his nuclear program." Other experts speculate that Pyongyang's intransigence reflects the growing strength of hard-liners, or that Kang is simply stalling until the succession to Kim Il Sung is settled. They note that the younger Kim has still not been formally named President or party chief. Jimmy Carter, who is pressing to return to Pyongyang to arrange a summit between North and South...
...government said it will spend $1 billion over the next 10 years to pay for research into its wartime activities and to fund cultural exchanges with other Asia-Pacific countries as a symbol of remorse for its wartime atrocities. But groups of women demonstrated at the Japanese embassies in Seoul and Manila, angered that the package contained no compensation for the tens of thousands of Asian women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army...
...South Korean government insists such evidence, ambiguous as it is, points to trouble in the North. "It has heightened our suspicions," says a senior official in Seoul, "that something is going wrong for Kim Jong Il." Seoul may be genuinely worried about Kim Jong Il's stability or may be trying to rock the boat in Pyongyang...
Wednesday's jetliner crash on a South Korean tourist island -- the one in which all 160 people aboard miraculously escaped -- turns out to be pilot error. Police in Seoul say that as the plane neared the runway, the Canadian pilot accused the South Korean co-pilot of trying to manipulate the joystick, since the two disagreed on exactly where to land. Interested parties will have to wait for a police analysis of the cockpit's voice recorder to see if the squabbling may have caused the accident...