The People's Korea Indonesian President Megawati Visits Dprk; Meets Kim Jong Il for 1St Time in 37 Years

By The Peoples Korea

Book Id: WPLBN0000703100
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The People's Korea Indonesian President Megawati Visits Dprk; Meets Kim Jong Il for 1St Time in 37 Years
Author:	The Peoples Korea
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; e-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Indonesian President Mrs. Megawati Soekarnoputri paid an official goodwill visit to the D.P.R.K. from March 28 to 30. The visit was historic and dramatic. Megawati came to Pyongyang to meet Kim Jong Il again in 37 years since they met for the first time in Indonesia, to further strengthen the traditional bilateral ties forged by the preceding leaders of the two nations--Sukarno, Megawati?s father, and Kim Il Sung--and to help promote the peace and reconciliation process based on the landmark inter- Korean agreement. She became the second foreign head of state to make successive visits to North and South Korea, after Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, who visited both parts of Korea one after the other last May. She also became the first foreign head of state to meet Kim Jong Il since George W. Bush threatened Pyongyang by calling it a member of an ?axis of evil? in his State of the Union address in January.