PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has invited former U.S. President Bill Clinton to visit Pyongyang to play a mediating role and to cool rhetoric from Washington, a North Korean official said Monday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to specify whether Kim made the invitation before or after President Bush's speech in January in which he branded North Korea as part of an axis of evil along with Iraq and Iran.
"The plan of the Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is that Mr. Clinton should end the rhetoric," the official told Reuters.
