It'll cost you

摘要

Bringing his own food, and accompanied by 300 business, political and cultural figures—but excluding the international press—President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea drove to Pyongyang on October 2nd to call upon North Korea's Kim Jong Il. At the heavily-armed border, which Bill Clinton once described as "the world's scariest place", Mr Roh got out of his limousine to cross on foot—a step, he wanted everyone to know, that symbolised a desire for peace and reconciliation between the two estranged sides of a bloody civil war that remains unresolved more than 50 years after it ground to a halt.