his personal video library was said to include 20,000 titles with "rambo" and "friday 13th" topping the dearly disfavorite flicks. in 2000 there appeared to be a thaw in north/south relations, the first ever summit meeting between kim jong-il and president kim dae-jung. the south's so-called policy of engagement seemed to be bearing fruit. but kim jong-il pressed ahead with his nuclear weapons program. the u.s. labelled it part of the axis of evil in 2002, a year later, north korea withdrew from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. in 2006, the north conducted a nuclear test and test fired missiles. it added extra urgency to the six-party talks designed to deal with north korea's nuclear program. a breakthrough came in 2007 when kim jong-il finally agreed to disable the nuclear reactor, in return for fuel and better relations with the u.s. despite dramatically blowing up the cooling tower, north korea seemed to backtrack afterwards, the deal appeared to be in jeopardy. the capture of two u.s. journalists, laura ling and euna lee on the north korean border sparked another crisis in 2009.