CAPTION CORRECTION – CORRECTS KIM’S TITLE.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il talks during a meeting with the European Union delegation in Pyongyang in this May 2, 2001 file photo. Kim has started 2003 exactly where he has always wanted to be: secure in power in the planet’s only communist dynasty and basking in world attention as a master of brinkmanship. REUTERS/Chien-Min Chung/File photo