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...anyone in South Korea is living in the shadow of the North Korean Bomb, it is the people of Ilsan, a town of 500,000 situated north of Seoul just a few kilometers from the gash of barbed wire and land mines that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. From a local lookout point, the town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like...
...weapons. The North lobbed a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea) earlier this month. And U.S. officials have been warning that spy satellites have detected increased activity around a suspicious test facility in the northeast of the country that may presage an underground A-bomb test. South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon last week told a local TV news service: "I'm extremely concerned that the situation is getting worse...
...Republic. Talat Salk, who prosecuted Ocalan in 1999, warned that a retrial would have "huge reverberations" and play directly into the hands of Kurdish "terrorists" by providing them with a pretext to hold demonstrations in major cities. Nationalist politician Devlet Bahceli said the trial would be like a "time bomb" that ignited simmering ethnic tensions. But the decision also pits those who want to Westernize the country's judicial and political systems to speed E.U. accession against Turkish nationalists, many of whose idea of "Turkishness" dates back to the days of the nation's founding father, Kemal Ataturk, and which...
...divorce in the mid-1990s) and a tip about his alleged predilection for boys, the paper had months earlier begun investigating his personal life. The results of that probe, which culminated in a controversial Internet sting operation, landed on Spokane's collective doorstep on May 5 like a paper bomb. "For a quarter-century," the report began, "the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust--as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician--to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men." The FBI last week opened an inquiry into whether...
Back in the ER, the staff members have all but forgotten the patients they saw only hours earlier. Though there will be no more bombings this day, a steady stream of patients keeps Emad busy. "Sometimes we forget that not everybody who comes here has a bullet wound or shrapnel from a bomb blast," he says. "There are many ways for people to get hurt." But it isn't long before another war wound appears in the ER: a young man shot in the hip. "Here we go," Emad whispers, almost to himself, as he gets back to work. --With...