When Secretary of State Colin Powell stepped out of the Oval Office after a summit between President George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in March 2001, he had a humiliating task ahead of him: explaining to reporters that comments he'd made earlier suggesting that talks with North Korea would proceed were wrong.
President Bush had taken a much harder line on North Korea in his meeting with Kim, it turned out.
When Secretary of State Colin Powell stepped out of the Oval Office after a summit between President George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in March 2001, he had a humiliating task ahead of him: explaining to reporters that comments he'd made earlier suggesting that talks with North Korea would proceed were wrong.
President Bush had taken a much harder line on North Korea in his meeting with Kim, it turned out.
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