(3 May 2001)
1. Kim Jong Il entering room and shaking hands with Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson and other EU delegates
2. Wide of meeting between Kim and EU delegation
3. Perrson, EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten and EU Security Affairs Chief Javier Solana sitting at table
4. Close up of Kim Jong Il in meeting
5. Wide of meeting
6. Close up of Kim Jong Il
7. Various of meeting
8. Various of Kim Jong Il in the meeting
9. Close up of Kim putting on his glasses
10. Close up of Perrson
11. Midshot of entrance doors of meeting room with various North Korean officials outside
STORYLINE:
A top-level European Union (EU) delegation resumed talks on a second inter-Korea summit, human rights and missile issues with North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday, the second and final day of its visit to Pyongyang.
A smiling Chairman Kim shook hands before the meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson who leads the delegation after failing to do so at a short get-to-know-you meeting on Wednesday in Pyongyang.
Kim also shook hands with EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten, EU Security Affairs Chief Javier Solana and the other members of the delegation.
Persson said the talks also would cover the North's notorious human rights record, its widespread food shortages and its cautious interest in economic reforms.
The EU delegation's visit reflects the EU's intention to bring Pyongyang into the international community to ease worries by the West over North Korea's alleged development of missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
The EU also aims to flex its diplomatic muscle to contribute to the rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula amid the cautious approach toward North Korea adopted by the new US administration of President George W. Bush.
Many analysts fear the hard-line stance adopted by the Bush administration is hampering the reconciliation process between North and South Korea.
The mission arrived on Wednesday in Pyongyang , led by Persson, the first Western leader to visit North Korea.
At the outset of the visit, Persson said the most important issue on the agenda is unification of North and South Korea and
declared the EU's support for a landmark accord signed last June by Kim and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung calling for reconciliation
and eventual reunification of the two Koreas.
Kim told the visiting mission that he appreciates the EU's support for the inter-Korean peace process.
Kim skipped a Wednesday dinner for the visiting EU mission he was supposed to host. It was instead hosted by Kim Yong Nam, president of
the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and North Korea's No. 2 leader.
EU officials said the North Korean leader will instead host a luncheon Thursday.
After the second-day meeting, the EU delegation will hold a news conference in Pyongyang before proceeding to Seoul, where it will
brief South Korean President Kim on the outcome of the visit.
It is the first-ever visit to Pyongyang by the president of the 15-member EU and the highest level non-communist delegation to go
there since the historic inter-Korean summit in June last year.
The idea for a summit meeting between the EU and North Korea was initially proposed by Kim Dae Jung when he visited Stockholm in
December, after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
The visit reflects the EU's intention to bring Pyongyang into the international community to ease worries by the West over North Korea's
alleged development of missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
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