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The leaders of North and South Korea met this week. It was the first such meeting in seven years, and only the second since Korea was divided in 1953.

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korea’s Kim Jong II ended three days of talks in Pyongyang on Thursday. They signed a joint declaration to support peace and economic growth on the Korean Peninsula.

It says the South and the North will closely cooperate to end military hostilities and ease tensions. The two Koreas have been increasingly cooperative, but technically they are still at war.

Earlier this week, North Korea agreed to disable its main nuclear centers and document all of its programs by the end of the year. The agreement came in the six-party talks with china, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and the United States.

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Reports say a civilian was at one of the controls of the nuclear submarine that hit a Japanese fishing boat last week. The Navy said there is no evidence that the civilian was directly involved in the accident. 9 Japanese students and crew members from the fishing boat are still missing. 26 other people survived the accident. The Navy has sent a deep-sea vehicle to the sunken wreckage. It also will decide if the boat can be raised. On Tuesday, President Bush told Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori that he greatly regretted sinking the boat. The president spoke to MR Mori by telephone.

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Sout h Korea’s government has issued a stern warning in reaction to Saturday night protests that left more than 100 people injured. Officials say police will take every necessary measure to track down violent protesters, and will consider resuming the use of tear gas for the first time in nearly a decade.

Saturday’s day-long protest escalated into clashes between police and demonstrators by nightfall. Police say the demonstrators vandalized buses authorities had set up as barricades. Authorities say some of the protesters attacked by throwing stones, swinging steel pipes, and even shooting acid from squirt guns at police. More than 50 protesters were taken into custody.

UNIT 5 PASSAGE 2

Tinned tomato soup is horrible. Why not make your own? It’s dead easy, and it tastes delicious.

You need some onions, some tomatoes, butter or margarine, salt, pepper, some wine, and any herbs that you feel like putting in.

The first thing to do is to pour yourself a glass of wine. Then chop the onions up small, wash the tomatoes carefully—you don’t know what sort of chemicals they’ve had on them, do you? —and cut them into quarters. Then you—I’m sorry, I didn’t say how many tomatoes, did I? My book says 700 grams for four to six people, but I don’t find that’s enough, because the soup’s so good that everybody asks for more. So I usually make twice as much. If they don’t eat it all you can always freeze it. I use about one and a half kilos of tomatoes, and two or three big onion, or five or six small ones. You must have enough onions—that’s what makes the soup taste good.

OK, so you chop the onions and cut the tomatoes into quarters. When you’ve done that, you put some butter in a big saucepan—or you can use margarine or oil instead, if you prefer—put it on a low heat and fry the onions and garlic gently for three or four minutes. Yeah, sorry, I should have said—you need two cloves of garlic, chopped up small or crushed. You might like to throw in a piece of bacon rind as well. Keep stirring everything gently while it’s f rying.

After three or four minutes, put the tomatoes into the saucepan, and pour in some water—about a quarter of a litre. A bit if the tomatoes aren’t very juicy. Add plenty of salt and pepper, and herbs if you want to.

Stir everything thoroughly, put the lid on the saucepan, and bring it to the boil. Then leave it to cook slowly over a low heat for an hour or so. Pour yourself another glass of wine.

When it’s ready—you can tell it’s ready, because everything’s soft and it smells terrific—when it’s r eady, take it off the cooker and strain it carefully through a sieve. Actually, it’s best if you’ve got one of those little machines where you turn a handle and it pushes everything through a round metal plate with little holes in—you know what I mean?

Put the soup back into the saucepan and see whether it needs any more salt. Then bring it to the boil again. Cook it gently for two or three minutes; keep stirring it. When you serve it, you can mix in some milk if you like, but I don’t bother—I think it’s nice as it is. You’re supposed to make croutons as well—you know, little