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But both sides had their own motivations for the visit.
That trip paved the way for a crucial visit a few months later by
former president Jimmy Carter, who met Kim Il Sung and helped
negotiate a deal to defuse the nuclear crisis.
The pastor, whose wife Ruth was born in China as the daughter
of missionaries, declared his trip was part of the process of
“building bridges” between United States and China, and also
between the churches of the two countries.
Graham himself never went back to the North, although his own
son and successor Franklin Graham has done so several times.
BILLY
GRAHAM