Kim Jong-il wants to `dance' with US - Korea

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REUTERS , TOKYO

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is so eager for dialogue with the US that his negotiators to six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions will talk until they are hoarse, Japan's Kyodo news agency said yesterday.

The reclusive leader of one of the world's last hardline communist states made the remarks on the so far inconclusive talks on curbing the North's nuclear arms programs in a rare recent meeting with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

"We want to talk with the United States until our throats are dry," Kyodo quoted Kim as telling Koizumi in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, last month.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/06/13/2003174872

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1. Whew. Man, this stuff worries me...

"We want to talk....until our throats are dry...."

It just sounds ominous. You just never know how to read these people. Are they joking? Are they serious? I know that they recently called Bush a "criminal" and they've called Cheney equally repulsive adjectives.

And now they want to talk?