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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:19 AM
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Leaders of North, South Korea meet
Source: AP

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea's president to Pyongyang displaying scant enthusiasm Tuesday while orchestrated crowds cheered the start of the second-ever summit between the divided Koreas since World War II.

The greeting was a stark contrast to the first North-South summit in 2000, when Kim greeted then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung with smiles and clasped both his hands tightly in an emotional moment that softened the North Korean strongman's image to South Koreans and the world.

This time, Kim appeared reserved and unemotional, walking slowly and occasionally clapping lightly to encourage the crowd of thousands at the outdoor welcome ceremony, who waved red and pink paper flowers. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun appeared to revel in the moment, waving and smiling broadly before reviewing a goose-stepping North Korean military honor guard wielding rifles with bayonets.

Roh has said his goal at the summit is fostering peace between the North and South, which remain technically at war since a 1953 cease-fire halted the Korean War. But he has not given any specifics about what he will propose or get in return, prompting criticism from conservatives at home that the summit is an ego trip for Roh seeking to establish a legacy for his unpopular administration that ends in February.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_on_re_as/koreas_summit
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:26 AM
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1. I bet they met on EHarmony.....
They had to have match all 29 of the answers...
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:15 AM
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2. Ha ha. nt
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