SEOUL — Both North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, the younger host, and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, his older guest, have come off last week’s world-dazzling summit with a bounce. But can they keep the momentum going?
Converting this impressive symbolic achievement into real change, actually implementing reconciliation through cooperation, will require leadership of a high order from the two Kims, who head two very different political systems.
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