North Korea agrees to rejoin nuke talks

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/09/koreas.nuclear.ap/index.html

I always believe that Kim Jong-il's ultimate objective is to perserve his power over his bankrupt state, and nuke program is just one of the chips he uses in negotiating with the rest of the world to get ressurance of not attacking him and maybe some aid for his starving nation.

The major factors of this change:
1. recently announced a 50,000-ton (55,000 metric tons) food donation for North Korea
2. Chinese--North Korea was a priority for Rice heading into meetings Sunday with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing.

3. South Koreans---A North Korean delegation arrived Saturday in Seoul for economic cooperation talks. The two Koreas resumed contact in May following a 10-month freeze when the North was angered by mass defections of its citizens to the South.
 
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