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Article Discusses Historic Summit Between North and South Korea
10/03/2007
Paul Wiseman and Jean Chung,
USA Today
SEOUL — Long one of the world's most isolated countries, North Korea finally might be looking to make friends.
Its reclusive dictator, Kim Jong Il, is scheduled to meet Tuesday with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. It will be the second meeting ever between the leaders of two nations that are still technically at war more than five decades after the Korean conflict of 1950-53.
The three-day summit, plus Kim's recent surprise agreement to begin dismantling his nuclear weapons program, has raised hopes that North Korea might be on a path to becoming less of a threat not just to its southern neighbor, but also to the United States and the rest of the world. Similar negotiations have failed before, but North Korea's struggling economy finally may have convinced the charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil" to accept aid from Western countries in return for better behavior. More...
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