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There is, as ever, more at stake in Korea than simply Korea, and the breakthrough summit between the leaders of North and South signals a changing game for all the players on this most dangerous of Cold War chessboards. The Korean War, which ended with a cease-fire rather than a peace treaty 47 years ago, was fought less because Koreans themselves couldn't get along than because the West, Russia and China were jostling to expand their "spheres of influence." The end of the Cold War has opened new opportunities for the Koreans to contemplate reunification. But the German...
...South Koreans came away from their breakthrough summit in Pyongyang with a lot more than a newfound appreciation for the wit and wisdom of the Dear Leader. A four-point communique adopted early Thursday commits the two sides to promote economic, sports and cultural exchanges (including family reunions across the world's most militarized border), to hold ongoing government-to-government talks and, most important, to work toward eventual reunification. No mention was made of the more vexing questions, such as Seoul's concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs and Pyongyang's desire to see the backs...
...Despite the euphoria engendered by the historic summit on both sides of the 1953 cease-fire line, don't expect the border fences to be torn down and chopped into souvenir-size chunks any time soon. "Although the dam wall is showing signs of breaking now and there are huge economic benefits for both sides in working together, both Pyongyang and Seoul have an interest in taking things very slowly," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "North Korea wants to limit the impact of outside contact on its closed ideological system, while South Korea is getting over an economic slump...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Clinton summit lets you stand tall as a world leader--and yer kleptoeconomy's inching...
...Even if the progress at next week's summit is mostly symbolic, its importance can't be underestimated. "North Korea's leaders have shut themselves off from the outside world to the point where they're seriously out of touch with what's happening all around them," says Dowell, "and that obviously increases the risks that this heavily armed but economically desperate state could be tempted to do something stupid. Everyone involved in the region wants to do whatever they can to integrate North Korea into a wider community." In other words, anything that gets the Dear Leader out more...