Word: achin
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...decade ago, they "won't speak to journalists without permission," says Lankov. Even at the joint South and North Korean industrial complex at Kaesong, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, journalists don't really expect to land interviews with regular North Koreans, says Voice of America's Kurt Achin, who was part of a press tour there about two years ago. (See pictures of the reportedly ailing Kim Jong Il, doctored by his government...
...explosive economic growth. But today, Congress has atrophied into a party bereft of fresh people and ideas, and one that also appears lamentably out of sync with India's new dynamism. "What this election is about is whether we see the historic collapse of Congress," says politics expert Professor Achin Vanaik of New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university. "It's about whether the vote kills Congress...