Mr. Clinton has called the visit "a big plus" for the prospects of reconciliation between the United States and Communist North Korea.
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"They'll just love us in Pyongang, " said McCain, joking about a potential book signing tour that would take him to the capital of communist North Korea.
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Although many South Koreans still reckon that the 37, 000 American troops stationed in their country are the best deterrent against the invasion that communist North Korea habitually threatens, the American presence has become controversial.
Instead, communist North Korea's latest achievement on the nuclear front was a feat of diplomatic jujitsu: In talks with U.S. officials in New York, Pyongyang's representatives agreed to suspend its withdrawal from the nuclear NonProliferation Treaty (NPT).
The leaders of South Korea and Communist China are unlikely to be effective examples or interlocutors for making the case.
Japan's was a war of self-defence, protecting its perfectly legal territories of Manchuria (North-East China) and Korea against Communist conspirators.
Many people are worried by Mr Kim's policy of trying to engage the communist regime in North Korea in some sort of dialogue.
The communist government of North Korea operates nothing less than a nightmarish prison camp system analogous to the murderous designs of Hitler and Stalin.
After the Communist invasion of South Korea, he was among the first American troops that hit the beaches and pushed their way north through hard mountains and bitter cold.
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Turning to international news, Zhang Liangui, North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, welcomes a visit to North Korea by US basketball stars as well as earlier visits by the head of Google and the New York Philharmonic, but dismisses any notion of "basketball diplomacy".
North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, Zhang Liangui, tells Oriental Morning Post that North Korea has "completely shut the door to negotiations" and that the crisis will continue to reach "unmanageable levels".
Although North Korea is rigidly communist, Kim said that Rajin-Sonbong will be a capitalist enclave.
Worse, they have invited the use against themselves of the Assembly procedure devised in the black days of Korea to deprive communist aggression of the shield of the Russian veto.
Sixty two years ago, the Communist invasion of the Republic of Korea summoned a generation of Americans to serve.
Communist Party School professor and North Korea expert Zhang Liangui tells China News Service that South Korea's bigger role in the routine US-South Korean military exercises may have provoked Pyongyang.
Capitalist South Korea actually provides its communist rival aid.
Zhang Liangui, North Korea expert at the communist party's Central Party School, tells Global Times that Pyongyang will never give up its "bargaining chip" of developing nuclear weapons and that it values relations more with Washington than Beijing.
In Global Times, Zhang Liangui, a North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, foresees a "70- 80% likelihood of war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula", and believes that North Korea's aim is reunification with the South by armed force.
Zhang Liangui, a North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, tells Global Times that China "will forever lose the chance to play a dominant role" in resolving the crisis if it fails to deter Pyongyang from going ahead with the test.
America has reiterated its commitment to defending South Korea from attack by the communist North, stressing that its improving technology and weapons more than make up for reduced troop numbers.
Instead of fighting until we were victorious and punishing Communist aggression--after all, North Korea, bent on conquest, had brazenly invaded the South--we decided to settle for a draw.
That's easy: Principally it reflects the fact that North Korea has as its greatest friend Communist China, while Pyongyang considers the United States to be its main enemy.
On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said that a U.S. team, including technical experts, will head to North Korea next week, after the communist country agreed to begin the process.
Kyl charged his colleagues and the rest of us to make a redoubled effort to assure "peace through strength" in such areas as assuring our nuclear arsenal in the face of the increasing challenge to its deterrent effectiveness posed by Communist China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Joint US-South Korea annual military drills have further angered the communist nation.
Talks between the closed communist state and five nations - the US, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia - on the denuclearisation deal have been stalled since April 2009.
China and North Korea share a long border and a long history as communist comrades-in-arms.
If the objective is to provide a real defense against the kinds of ballistic missile threats the United States is likely to face in the future from rogue states like North Korea, Iran and Iraq, to say nothing of Communist China, the sort of exceedingly limited anti-missile system permitted by the "Grand Compromise" would be clearly inadequate.
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