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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (2561)	8/4/2001 6:42:31 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

IT IS more like some archaic imperial progress than twenty-first century diplomacy. Kim Jong Il, who, in the world’s first instance of dynastic Stalinism, succeeded his late father as North Korea’s dictator in 1994, does not like flying. One airborne experience—a visit to Indonesia in 1965—was apparently enough to put him off for life. So his trek to Moscow has taken nine days by special armoured train across Siberia. economist.com