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Even as she spoke, Juan Miguel's uncle and cousin were in the air, heading from Miami to Washington to try to get Juan Miguel alone and persuade him to come to Miami for a summit, show him the error of his ways, give him a taste of a new life. The family's options were fast drying up, even as the crowds chanted "Elian will not leave" and talked about using women and children as human shields. But Juan Miguel was not in the mood to talk to his son's "kidnappers." He and his family went sightseeing...
Coincidentally, Okinawa will be the site of Mori's first major international appearance when he is host of the G-8 summit in July. That leaves him just three months to hone his diplomatic skills and demonstrate his potential as a national leader before he sits down with the heads of the industrial world's most powerful countries. On that occasion, his peers will be watching closely to see if Japan's new leader-by-default is anything more than a successful party infighter...
...upcoming summit between the leaders of the North and South, originally called for in a 1994 treaty shouldn't hurt either, Hong-Koo said...
...world's most resolute geopolitical wallflower, but don't expect a rapid thaw in the Cold War's most intractable conflict. Pyongyang and Seoul announced simultaneously on Monday that President Kim will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in the Northern capital in the first top-level summit between the two states since their creation five decades ago. Although the announcement was clearly timed to coincide with South Korea's midterm elections - in which President Kim had been criticized by the opposition for failure to produce results in his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with the North - the meeting...
...from belligerence by offering economic incentives, such as energy and food aid in exchange for nuclear nonproliferation. But that has also created a bargaining framework for North Korea, which has periodically raised the temperature through bouts of military brinkmanship when it feels it's being short-changed. The historic summit in June, if it takes place, will certainly shift the North-South relationship onto a new plane. But the hungry North will likely expect its pound of flesh. Still, judging by the 5 percent bounce on the South Korean stock exchange provoked by news of the summit, that...