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| | TIME Asia Magazine: Talk Isn't Cheap -- Jan. 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | It was news the world wanted to hear: at the end of a four-day trip to Pyongyang last week, a U.S. congressional delegation declared North Korea was ready to return to the long-delayed six-party talks over its nuclear weapons program. |
 | | Pyongyang is particularly interested in Bush's State of the Union address at the end of the month, the forum the President used in 2002 to depict North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" along with Iraq and Iran. |
 | | Says the diplomat: "The giving can be endless." Despite hopeful speculation, a resumption of talks may depend on cold, hard cash. |
| time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501050124-1018157,00.html (462 words) |
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