Is the media helping the situation? Is Ted Turner?

Perhaps media reports of a possible strike on Kim's nuclear assets has softened his stance, and he really IS willing to end his nuclear weapons program...

Pyongyang, August 16, 2005 (KCNA) -- An appeal to 70 million fellow countrymen was adopted at the August 15 national meeting for independence, peace and reunification on Monday. The history of half a century-long division left us a bitter lesson that unless the north and the south of Korea become one it is impossible to demonstrate the potential might of the fellow countrymen and it is hard to expect the independent development of the nation and the peace of the country, the appeal said. It underscored the need to independently solve the issue of national reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation, its master, as clarified in the June 15 joint declaration, put an end to the danger of a war and military showdown threatening the existence of the 70 million Koreans without fail, achieve durable peace and remove the root cause of nuclear war from this land. It held that the Koreans should put together their mind and wisdom in checking the unreasonable foreign intervention and settling the military conflict and crisis at home and abroad in a peaceful way and solidarize with all the peace-loving forces of the world in order to check military supremacy and militarism. It called for boosting multi-faceted cooperation for the common prosperity of the nation and advancing towards independence, peace and reunification with the June 15 joint committee as a center.


In retrospect, however, I trust Kim about as much as I trust the leftist-media estabishment.
Pyongyang, August 16, 2005 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Tuesday received Joo Dong Mun, president of the Washington Times Corporation, on a visit to Pyongyang. On the occasion the president offered his congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation. Kim Jong Il welcomed the Pyongyang visit of the president, had a cordial talk with him and posed for a photograph with him.

I guess Ted Turner feels he has to PROVE that FOX news viewers are Nazis.

Pyongyang, August 16, 2005 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by Robert Edward Turner, chairman of the Turner Foundation INC. of the United States, on a visit to the DPRK. The gift was handed to an official concerned by the chairman.

SEOUL, Aug. 17, 2005 (Yonhap) -- American media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner proposed Wednesday that South and North Korea form a team to develop a peace park in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), claiming it will benefit them both politically and economically. "They need to have a commission to study all the complicated matters that will come up when it actually happens. I expect the commission will be established relatively soon," he told a press conference.