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...countries whose neighborly relations are still defined by a cease-fire agreement rather than any mutual recognition treaty. After all, while there are grounds for optimism on areas such as allowing family reunions across that cease-fire line and economic aid from the prosperous South to the famine-stricken North, progress may be slower when President Kim urges his host to curb a missile program that has put North Korea at the top of Washington's "rogue state" charts, and when Dear Leader Kim suggests that his guest get rid of the 30,000 U.S. troops dug in along...
...drowning in Why me? All lives are equally precious, but swashbuckling politicians who swagger through life surrounded by aides whispering in their ears, who exercise power over people like House Speaker Tip O'Neill (who once referred to the upstart Jordan as Hannibal Jerkin), shock us when they're stricken...
Even as the comatose Obuchi remains hooked up to life-support systems, he may turn out to be the most prominent figure in the upcoming campaign. Mori and his party colleagues can be expected to play shamelessly on the stricken leader's image to generate a sympathy vote while making critics of the Obuchi government's record look insensitive. In his first press conference last week, Mori repeatedly invoked the name of his longtime friend and former Waseda University classmate. "I feel like I can hear the voice of Prime Minister Obuchi from his bed, saying 'I trust...
...which President Kim had been criticized by the opposition for failure to produce results in his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with the North - the meeting's significance goes way beyond Seoul's domestic politicking. After all, no Western-allied leader has ever even met Kim Jong-Il, whose famine-stricken but armed-to-the-teeth state periodically threatens to disrupt the region's tenuous stability with such unpredictable provocations as test-firing a long-range missile over Japan...
...location is unbeatable. A Russian spacecraft blasted off Tuesday carrying two cosmonauts whose job is to repair an air leak aboard the abandoned Mir orbiter in preparation for its reincarnation as a galactic hotel. An international consortium led by Washington millionaire Walt Anderson has stepped in to save the stricken space station, buying the rights to its commercial use for $20 million and planning to invest a further $200 million over the next two years in turning Mir into a $20 million-per-head orbiting motel...