NEGATIVE/ROGUES/NORTH KOREA

NORTH KOREA WILL NEVER BE A NORMALIZED NATION IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY

NORTH KOREA WILL NEVER ALLOW FULLY NORMALIZED RELATIONS

PAULINE JELINEK, The Associated Press. November 29, 1999, HEADLINE: Perry says North Korea's fear of foreign influence could sink talks // acs-ln-12-28-99

North Korea fears that normalized relations with the United States would expose its people to Western ideas and threaten the communist government's control, President Clinton's envoy said Monday.

"I told the president I cannot predict a happy outcome from this," William J. Perry said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

THERE WILL NOT BE A POPULAR REVOLT IN NORTH KOREA

PAULINE JELINEK, The Associated Press. November 29, 1999, HEADLINE: Perry says North Korea's fear of foreign influence could sink talks // acs-ln-12-28-99

He [Perry] said relief workers "report no general dissatisfaction" in the North despite U.S. estimates that famine has killed 2 million North Koreans in this decade.

International officials have said North Korean farm mismanagement and the collapse of the former Soviet Union have caused food shortages for years. But when it asked for international help in 1995, the North Korean government blamed the famine on flooding.

Yet "the conditions for a popular revolt do not exist in that country, even though the deprivation is widespread," he said.