It was a hard-eyed, unemotional get-together. They had never met face-to-face, but once sparred dangerously. Bill Clinton, the unusually unsmiling former American president who had probably come closer to fighting North Korea than any president since the Korean war, was in Pyongyang to win the release of two female American journalists facing 12 years of hard labour. There he met Kim Jong Il, the grim-faced leader of arguably the world's most repressive regime and a defiant nuclear bomb-tester to boot.
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机译：这是一个眼花，乱，毫无感情的聚会。他们从来没有面对面见过，但是曾经一次危险地开着车。比尔·克林顿（Bill Clinton）是不寻常的不笑脸的前美国总统，自朝鲜战争以来可能比任何总统都更接近与朝鲜作战。他正在平壤赢得两名面临12年辛勤劳动的美国女记者的释放。在那儿，他遇到了金正日（Kim Jong Il）。金正日（Kim Jong Il）面带表情严峻，可以说是世界上最压制的政权，也是一名挑衅的核弹测试员。
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