Although the White House stated the former President Clinton's trip was not conducted on official basis, it cannot be denied that his visit to North Korea had a far more strategic implication than simply resolving a five month-old human drama.
What this trip has in effect done is to provide a way out for Kim Jong-il to tone down the rhetoric and release the two journalists without losing face. Yes, the visit did provide a great media blitz that Kim can (and did) use both domestically and internationally to show that he is healthy and still in complete control of the country; however, it seems for now that this visit brought more gains than losses on both strategic and humanitarian level.
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