A New Openness to Talks With That ‘Axis of Evil’

A New Openness to Talks With That ‘Axis of Evil’

By HELENE COOPER

A news analysis article on Tuesday about the Bush administration’s diplomacy with Iran and North Korea misstated the history of high-level meetings between American and North Korean officials. While the meeting this week between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun reflects a new willingness by President Bush to talk with countries he has called part of the “axis of evil,” it is not the first such meeting since 2000, when then-Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright of the Clinton administration visited Pyongyang. Ms. Rice’s predecessor, Colin L. Powell, met twice with his North Korean counterpart, in 2002 and 2004.

http://www.newageislam.com/a-new-openness-to-talks-with-that-%E2%80%98axis-of-evil%E2%80%99/current-affairs/d/333