Kim had fled to Japan after his involvement in the 1884 coup and the Japanese had turned down Korean demands that he be extradited.
He was referring to North Korean demands for what it calls a "nonaggression pact" with the United States.
Nor does direct communications mean capitulating to North Korean demands.
And Samaranch also suggested that a North Korean demand for further events might not be rejected out of hand.
The North Korean demand for a light-water reactor echoes the main benefit it received in a 1994 agreement, now defunct.
The meeting itself takes care of one North Korean demand.
But he condemned as mischief-making the recent North Korean demand that the South cancel the joint military exercises, called Team Spirit.
The second concession involved the North Korean demand that it receive a light-water nuclear reactor as a down payment for scrapping its weapons program.
North Korea is apparently in no rush to restore South Korean demand for its products.
August 10, 1951 US government refused Korean demand by the Rusk documents.