Word: ways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...landed at dawn outside the capital, Pyongyang, and taxied toward the grim concrete terminal - a single building, definitely no duty free - as peasants stared from embankments above drainage ditches. A few wheeled bikes as if on their way to work, others merely glanced past the electrified fence surrounding the airport at the jet emblazoned with the words United States of America - a name they had only heard in conjunction with words like "imperialist" and "colonialist...
...poverty is visible everywhere. From the crumbling buildings to the rusty electric trams and buses, to the dour citizens hauling tattered, bulging knapsacks along the streets of the capital. The overly helpful minder from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was evasive when asked if the houses on the way into the city had electricity. "Yes... there are electric lights in those buildings," he said sheepishly. He meant there are lights there, but no electricity to run them...
After Albright and Kim arrived and shook hands, we all made our way into a room with another lime-green carpet - this one with in a more muted mustard shade - heavily upholstered chairs and a massive rectangular wood table. Albright took in four aides, while Kim took only his deputy foreign minister and two interpreters. Kim greeted Albright once they were seated. "Let me once again welcome you to our country. It's really for the first time for the Secretary of State of the U.S. to come to our country like this. And this is a new one from...
...Washington paid too much attention to Barak's operating style and not enough to Arafat's. The Camp David summit Clinton hastily convened last July was ideal for the Israeli prime minister - a hands-on manager who delegates little to his diplomats, Barak had convinced Clinton that the only way he and Arafat could reach a treaty was to isolate the two of them in a secluded spot where political enemies and the press couldn't "salami-slice" the concessions they'd have to make...
...setting for Arafat. He prefers to let a loose circle of advisers negotiate details, and then sign off on them only after many rounds of consultations with other Arab leaders and consensus-building among his own people. "Taking the Palestinians to Camp David and cutting them off from the way they usually make decisions bewildered them and made it more difficult for them to decide," says Chas Freeman, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia...