Now new evidence has emerged of the lengths the Pyongyang regime will go to in order to choreograph memorials to the departed dictator.

Beijing has been propping up the Pyongyang regime with financial aid, and had been to trying to persuade Kim to toe-dip into market economics - with some degree of success.

To the contrary, Bush said he would not negotiate until the Pyongyang regime dismantled its nuclear weapons program and threatened the North Koreans with total economic collapse.

No one can be sure what the Pyongyang regime may do under the pressure of failure.

Other States that maintain diplomatic relations with the Pyongyang regime are represented by their Embassies in other Nations.

The aid also shores up the Pyongyang regime, which Washington would rather see improve than collapse, since sudden disintegration could overwhelm South Korea with refugees and create political and economic turmoil.

Mr. Roh has called for an end to campaigns meant to keep the Pyongyang regime out of world organizations.

Other nations, like the Soviet Union, recognized the Pyongyang regime in North Korea, but did not initially establish relations with the South Korean government in Seoul.

The Pyongyang regime would have to be irrational to attack, they say, because it would be destroyed.

The DUMB housed the heaviest nuclear firepower available to the Pyongyang regime.