Of course, it is vogue for corporate CEO's and their public relations mavens to talk about "social responsibility".
All this happened "over decades of hostile relations and I want to talk about it frankly," Mr Kim said.
He recalls department public relations officials warning him not to talk about his work and refusing to greenlight his appearances.
(Mr. McCain, in contrast, is far more likely to talk about American relations with the great powers).
Lady Ashton visited Tehran in March to talk about improving relations with the European Union.
Ms. Redgrave, when asked about the play's portrayal of race relations, said: "I'm not going to talk about that.
They need to talk about managing relations with China, how to roll back North Korea's nuclear program and preventing a double-dip global recession.
Tokyo has even gone so far as to talk about normalizing relations with Pyongyang next year, while Seoul has increased trade and military-to-military contacts.
There is a second problem with the 1960 cut-off: Ken Burns has used his documentaries as a vehicle to talk about race relations in the United States.
The 15-minute flight occurred just hours before Mr. Gates met with President Hu to talk about improving relations between the Chinese and American militaries and ways to reduce tensions during a nascent arms buildup between the two countries.
