Word: confessionalism
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Some experts suggest that as North Korea's rigid system breaks down around him, Kim is reaching clumsily for reform. Many in South Korea and Japan interpret last week's confession as a clearing of the decks, kicking over the old framework to negotiate a new, more stable one. But...
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shrugged off any notion that Kim's confession augurs real change. "I don't think there's any way in the world anyone could say it's a good sign," he said. In the short term, hard-liners inside the Administration will resist rewarding Kim...
FBI profilers began working on the case, and, at the ATF's suggestion, geographic profiler Kim Rossmo stepped in. "Random crimes aren't random, not in the mathematical sense," says Rossmo, a former Vancouver police official. After studying about 4,000 criminals, Rossmo is convinced that most operate a predictable...
To make a go of "special economic zones" such as Shinuiju, North Korea needs to massive foreign investment to rebuild its electrical grid and other key infrastructure. The country has never been self-sufficient in food and needs an industrial economy to make fertilizer to boost agricultural yield and to...
Before Roosevelt left for Warm Springs, Ga., in March 1945, he asked for a map projecting the sectors in Europe for the first of May. Roosevelt died before he saw it. "The last map" was returned to the White House, and Elsey took it over, saving it from destruction. A...