Kim Jong Il doesn't have all of the boss cards he needs in this dangerous game of "Liar's Poker" he is playing--he's missing the one card he must have: China.
"He's losing Chinese political and economic support more and more every day," said Park Joon-young, a political science professor at Ewha Women's University in Seoul. "Everybody is expecting something good out of this (meeting), because Kim Jong Il made a new move and came out of his den."
In the end, it is North Korea that suffers the most if the standoff continues, analysts say. "They know they have to cut a deal," said Ron Huisken, a visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defense Studies Center at Australian National University in Canberra. "They just have to get the best deal that they can. "
