-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Kim Slams Russia's Communists NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2001 MOSCOW -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il returned to Pyongyang from a three-week trip to Russia with impressions entirely different from those he was getting from conversations with Russia's communist leaders, a senior Russian official said Wednesday. "Kim did not give a rather flattering mark to the Russian Communist Party's leadership," Konstantin Pulikovsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin's regional envoy in Russia's Far East, told Interfax news agency. Pulikovsky should know - he was the man Putin appointed to travel with Kim across Russia on the reclusive Korean leader's bullet-proof train. The trip was Kim's first to Russia in the capacity of the head of state. According to Pulikovsky, Kim was surprised to see the progress Russia had achieved during a decade of post-Soviet democratic reform. Kim's perception of Russia, added the envoy, was chiefly based on the stories he was told by Russia's communist leaders on their frequent visits to Pyongyang. "They (the communist bosses) misled him by saying that Russia was impoverished and that it knelt before American imperialism," Pulikovsky said. According to Pulikovsky, the Korean leader was able to "witness the opposite" during his trip as he visited a number of places that were not originally included into his official schedule. Kim's hosts took him on his request to visit the subway stations, local stores, factories and other facilities that produced an impression on the leader, concluded Pulikovsky. The blame for his inadequate perception of Russia is partly Kim's -- pledging loyalty to the communist cause, he shunned the government of Putin's predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, and maintained contacts exclusively with Russia's communists. Last year, Putin's diplomatic efforts achieved a breakthrough as Kim pledged to build stronger ties with the Kremlin and promote openness at home that could eventually lead to the end of North Korea's isolation by the world community. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
