North Korean communists on rare visit to South Korean leader

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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean officials will hold a rare meeting with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday, rounding off joint celebrations of their liberation anniversary, where talk of Pyongyang's nuclear programme has been avoided.

Senior communist party official Kim Ki-nam and another party official Rim Tong-ok will be the highest-ranking North Koreans to visit the presidential office in more than a decade, an official from South Korea's Unification Ministry said.

Kim, who is also a vice chairman of the North's agency that handles affairs with the South, is leading a delegation of 182 communists, scholars and workers to celebrations in the South to mark the 60th anniversary of liberation from Japanese rule.

"A visit by North Koreans to the presidential Blue House itself is rare," a Unification Ministry official said, adding past visits to the presidential office have been by lower ranking North Korean officials.

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1. What Kim said to the South Korean Leader

"Hey look man the way things are goin you and I outta come to an understanding cause if China gets stupid and attacks America, that fuckin moron they got running things down there he just may invade YOU.......or maybe he'll nuke Japan.....aw who cares kiminos are sooooooo last century anyway."