Word: summiteer
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...talks in Beijing in late September, North Korea agreed to dismantle all its nuclear facilities and disclose the scope of its nuclear program by the end of the year in exchange for 950,000 tons of fuel oil or the equivalent in economic aid. And at this month's summit in Pyongyang between Kim and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, the two nations agreed to pursue a formal peace treaty to officially end the Korean War and made broad, if vague, plans for increased economic cooperation...
...Demoss's memo was just the latest effort in the system-wide Stop Rudy At All Costs campaign among social conservatives, who will host all the major candidates at the Values Voter Summit in Washington the weekend of October 19. On the same day that DeMoss made his views widely known about Romney, two other social conservatives, Gary Bauer, president of American Values, and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, met with reporters in Washington and made some positive comments about the Massachusetts governor - and less positive ones about former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the social conservative some...
...Camp David talks in 1978 produced the historic peace deal between Israel and Egypt. On the other hand, Bill Clinton's gathering at the presidential retreat in 2000 broke down in failure and triggered Israeli-Palestinian warfare. Little wonder that leaders from the region are approaching the latest Maryland summit - planned for Annapolis this time rather than history-burdened Camp David - with caution and skepticism...
...party deal was a bright moment in what has turned out to be a fairly unsatisfying summit for Roh. The longtime foes were able to ink a deal promising to work toward a permanent peace agreement and boost economic ties between Seoul and Pyongyang. But the joint statement didn't really break any new ground. "We shouldn't be too impressed," says Kim Tae Woo, analyst at the Korea Institute of Defense Analysis. "The agreement does not create any dramatic changes to inter-Korean relations...
...South Korean delegation even after Roh's pledge to attend the controversial Airang Games, a massive synchronized gymnastic performance often used as a propaganda tool that glorifies the regime. Kim also appeared - to put it charitably - a little distant in Roh's company, a stark contrast to the first summit seven years ago when Kim Jong Il welcomed former president Kim Dae Jung wholeheartedly. "Roh definitely got a less emotional reception," says Paik Hak Soon, a North Korea analyst at the Sejong Institute...