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The Risky Road to Pyongyang

The Risky Road to Pyongyang

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Aug 08, 2007
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Seven years ago, when President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il held their groundbreaking summit talks in Pyongyang, the North Korean dictator ended his handshakes by declaring that he would be in Seoul for the second round of summit talks.

It never happened. And the fact that he reneged on that promise may explain the glaring absence of…

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