"I don't trust North Korea that much," he said, seeming to distance himself a bit from his predecessor, Kim Dae Jung, who visited North Korea three years ago in what was viewed as a moment of reconciliation, but which produced few results.
"To defeat that is an act of reconciliation".
Donours are constantly being reminded of this bit of reconstruction and reconciliation.
Others have been more philosophical, even a bit irreverent, about the possibility of reconciliation.
The question is how much he merits the mercy — if not a bit of gratitude, for giving us that early, elusive taste of reconciliation before post-racial was cool.
Because Harry Reid is showing signs of spinal fortitude this week, which is a relief since he's going to need quite a bit of it when the health reform reconciliation battle begins anew.
Particular conceptions of reconciliation vary across a number of dimensions.
That he was denied prizes also lends him momentum – useful, potentially, this autumn, when we will see him as Ian Paisley in reconciliation drama The Journey ("bit of a mindfuck") and David Irving in Denial, about the holocaust sceptic's libel case.
Everyone talks of reconciliation.
