NPR's Ted Clark reports on the implications of Secretary of State Madeline Albright's planned trip to North Korea on Sunday. It is the latest indication that years of hostility and tension between Washington and Pyongyang are coming to an end. Fifty years ago yesterday, U.S. forces, under the auspices of the United Nations, briefly took control of the North Korean capital in a bloody three-year conflict that was a direct outgrowth of World War Two and Cold War attitudes.
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