She met Kim Jong Il on both days in October. As they sat together in a stadium on 23 October watching a performance extravaganza, an image of the launching of the Taepodong missile in 1998 flashed on to the screen. Madeleine Albright: ‘He [Kim Long Il] immediately turned to me and quipped that this was the first satellite launching and it would be the last.’
[Kim Jong Il] accepted ‘the idea’ of a deal to curb his country's missile programme during six hours of talks Tuesday [24 October] with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, according to a senior American official … He [Kim Jong Il] repeated that sentiment [about the 1998 Taepodong missile launching] in his conversations with Mrs Albright on Tuesday, according to the US official, and US ...
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