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rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

So the North korean deity has been photographed on a secret mission to China, learning how to create a free and healthy economy.
Encouraging sign? I think he may be about to open up Nk a bit, attract some investment, make him less reliant on foreign aid...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article338842.ece

Secretive Kim Jong Il makes surprise visit to China's ecomonic hothouse
By Clifford Coonan in Beijing 16 January 2006

Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of the secretive Stalinist enclave of North Korea, spent the weekend visiting China's richest city, Shenzhen, a buzzing frontier town near Hong Kong known for its liberal economy and its wild nightlife.

He also took in a tour of hi-tech factories in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, a centre of the economic hothouse known as the Pearl River Delta. More than half the world's manufactured goods are made in China, and a big chunk are produced in this thriving region.

All week there had been speculation about whether he was making one of his rare trips abroad, with rumours his Elvis-style quiff had been spotted in Shanghai. As evidence mounted that he was in the southern city of Shenzhen, attentions turned to finding out exactly what he was doing on the visit, his first since 2004. Kim dislikes flying and prefers to take a specially built train given to his father, Kim Il Sung, by Stalin. Reputedly quite the bon viveur, defectors tell tales of carriages filled with mistresses and crates of his favourite Bordeaux wines.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

KJI must go. It is ideal that his exit should be bloody and painful with as few innocents hurt as possible.

He is probably just doing a 'false play' as he tends to do. Everyone is pissed of with North Korea. Even the SK appeaser government is losing patience fast with his silly games.

KJI is a 'game player', he's pretending to open up just to secure his livelihood. He's just trying to confuse everyone to get as much leverage as possible when it comes to the negotiating table and the 6 way talks regarding the nukes.