NORTH KOREA: ALBRIGHT VISIT WRAP
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- (24 Oct 2000) Eng/Korean/Nat
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US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is in a second day of unprecedented talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Earlier in the day during lunch Albright said the two countries must move away from the bitterness of the past and join together in the search for common ground.
Talks with between Kim and Albright on Monday are believed to have centred on North Korea's missile development programme and its export of missiles to Iran and Syria.
Albright is also exploring a possible visit to North Korea by President Clinton next month.
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright went into a second round of talks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il on Tuesday celebrating their growing relationship.
It was the second day of her historic visit to the secretive state which has 37,000 American troops facing it off from the border with South Korea.
Albright acknowledged that it will take time to erase 50 years of enmity and mistrust which date back to the Korean War of the 1950s.
After Monday's talks Kim Jong Il had said he had been very happy to have the opportunity to meet the US Secretary of State - the first US official he has ever met.
But then on Tuesday, as they sat down to a second round of talks, he said the three hour meeting the day before was not going to break down the barriers that had existed for 50 years.
SOUNDBITE: (Korean)
"I don't think the three hours of discussion we had yesterday are enough to break the silence of the last 50 years".
SUPER CAPTION: Kim Jong-Il
Chief among the U-S's concerns is North Korea's missile development programme and its export of missiles to Iran and Syria.
North Korea has also been included on the US list of states supporting international terrorism since 1988, after North Korean agents bombed a South Korean airliner killing 115 people.
Before meeting Kim Albright ventured out into the countryside for a lunch hosted by Jo Myong Rok, Kim's top aide, at a rural guest house.
Toasting her host, Albright talked about ending Cold War divisions and in reply Jo talked of thawing relationships.
Madeleine Albright's visit may turn out to be a curtain raiser for a visit by President Clinton next month in what would be a move to further thaw relations.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"These goals will benefit all Koreans and all Americans. To achieve them we must each our responsibilities to fulfill commitments and eliminate threats. We must move in steady strides away from the bitterness of the past and persist in the search for common ground."
SUPER CAPTION: Madeleine Albright, U-S Secretary of State
Albright also met her opposite number, North Korea's Foreign Minister, Paek Nam Sun.
And shortly afterwards it was a photocall with the President of the Supreme People's Assembly.
Much of the democratic world has objected to North Korea's missile-building and export programme, its past support for terrorism and its massive army.
Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have also suffered starvation and an estimated one in three people have depended on international food shipments.
The Soviet style architecture, which still decorates the capital Pyongyang, is a throwback to the Cold War years.
And so are the reporting restrictions - TV pictures depicting everyday street life in North Korea such as these are relatively rare.
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A vital watch.....
The North Koreans have never forgotten the "benefits" of their negotiations with Democrat party administrations.
Well those were times both US and North Korea tried to find common interest and settle things down.It all was good until Bush was elected with strong war-hawks like John Bolton,Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfelt.Then they started whispering him war-ideas all day long...
You see outcome of that today Mid-East in ruins,millions dead,worldwide-instability & ofc still nuclear North Korea ...
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The basketball that Madeleine K. Albright gave to Kim Jong il was a phoney. Clinton revealed he called Michael Jordan who signed a basketball for the North Korean leader, and Clinton sent a plane to pick up the highly valued basketball, but once it arrived, it looked so nice that Clinton sent an aide to buy a cheap basketball, and had his wife Hillary sign the basketball. Clinton, and all his aides were reportedly rolling laughing about Hillary signing the ball.
There are any gay and lesbian in North Korea 🇰🇵??
Luckily not.
Hahaha stupid question
Yes