11.   Chinese officials said Jiang will use the trip to urge North Korea to reopen dialogue with the South.

12.   Government officials hope it would spur the cash-starved North to reopen dialogue with the South.

13.   It demands the North first reopen dialogue with Seoul and stop its anti-South propaganda before any aid is considered.

14.   Kim called on the communist state to reopen dialogue with capitalist South Korea that was cut off two years ago.

15.   North Korea has decided to reopen dialogue with the United States, a South Korean envoy said Saturday upon returning to Seoul from the communist North.

16.   On Wednesday, the White House reaffirmed its willingness to reopen a dialogue with North Korea.

17.   Oddly, in the case of North Korea, it preceded an invitation to reopen dialogue.

18.   President Kim Dae-jung urged the United States and North Korea to accelerate efforts to reopen dialogue to help ease tension on the divided Korean Peninsula.

19.   Seoul previously had insisted that North Korea reopen dialogue, ease anti-South rhetoric and make an official request for assistance.

20.   South Korea will emphasize that no significant aid should be considered before the North agrees to reopen dialogue with the South and stop its anti-Seoul propaganda, officials said.