Two Koreas to hold summit (Kim Jong Il,South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/7/07 | Burt Herman - ap

[NormsRevenge]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung shake hands as Kim Dae-jung arrives at Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang in this June 13, 2000 file photo. The leaders of North and South Korea will hold their second-ever summit later this month in Pyongyang, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, reprising the historic 2000 meeting that launched unprecedented reconciliation between the two longtime foes. In June 2000, Kim Jong Il met then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, also in Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Yonhap, POOL, File)

[NormsRevenge]

A view of the the Friendship Bridge (L) and the "Broken Bridge" which was bombed by the US during the Korean war over the Yalu River which borders North Korea in the background from the Chinese city of Dandong, in October 2006. China will offer 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil to North Korea this month under the second phase of an aid-for-disarmament nuclear agreement on the communist state, according to a report released on Sunday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

[NormsRevenge]

In this Korean Central News Agency photo released by Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il casts his ballot at a polling station in Hamju county in South Hamgyong province, northeast of Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, July 29, 2007. North Koreans went to the polls Sunday to elect the Provincial, City and county People's Assemblies. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

[Gay State Conservative]

Gee...I wonder how this meeting will go.....

"You give us money.You give us lots of money or else we subject you to revolutionary justice.."

[aShepard]

Gee, that’s kinda’ neat!
You can vote in your pajamas!

[Int]

Woah. This story deserves breaking news status.

[OCC]

The two sides will work out the agenda for the summit this month in meetings at the North Korean border city of Kaesong, site of a joint industrial park that is one of the most tangible achievements from the 2000 meeting.

NK got an industrial park, US oil and food,and then built atomic weapons, sold missiles abroad, and they are rewarded with another summit?

[El Gato]

Meeting in Pyongyang is a big mistake. Little Kim already has many advantages, being an absolute dictator and all. No need to hold the talks on his turf. That’s what Panmunjom is for, or at least some neutral site, Some Island in the Pacific would also probably work. Easter, Christmas, or something in Micronesia. Maybe Tahiti or better yet Pitcairn. Something to be said for Tinian in the Marianas as well, a gentle reminder as it were.

[TWohlford]

“NK got an industrial park, US oil and food,and then built atomic weapons, sold missiles abroad, and they are rewarded with another summit?”

No, DPRK got taken to the Red China wood shed and was told to knock off the nuke stuff and start behaving, lest more trains explode near the Dear Leader.

If you’ve followed the news — it might’ve gotten bumped off of the front page due to Paris or Nichole or Lindsay — you’d know that China has found DPRK’s actions dangerous to good business. Chinese don’t tolerate political upheaval or bad business practices. Chairman Mao’s little pet project (DPRK) don’t look so cute in modern China.

[OCC]

I guess all NK’s cooperation with the USA and living up to the “agreed framework” has been bumped off the front page as well?

[trek]

Yoo rusress to me Arec Bawdwin!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[headsonpikes]

I assume the South Koreans will be taking flashlights with them!

[SevenofNine]

Guess Chia Pet won’t be so roaney anymore

[jedward]

bump

[Tamar1973]

Kim Jong Il promised in 2000 to make a return visit to South Korea for a summit, but it appeared security concerns made that impossible for this month's meeting. Kim Man-bok said North Korea had proposed Pyongyang as the venue and that Roh accepted it. Kim rarely travels abroad, and leaves the country solely via train.

Is this why Crazy Kim doesn't like to fly?

[SevenofNine]

OMG Tamar that funny LOLOLOL!

Monk I think Tamar is right that reason can you imagine put yourself in Bill Shatner shoes see BJ as gremlin

[HardStarboard]

I thought Kim Jung Il was ill? Miracle recovery for the great leader and 18 holes in one on one round title holder?

[SevenofNine]

Hey that give Freepers some idea vote in your PJ