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Incarcerated in 1999 for involvement in an attempted military coup, Kim bribed officials after six months’ imprisonment and was released two months later. He fled with his family, making his way to South Korea in March 2001, where he worked for that country??s National Intelligence Service...
When 400,000 people fled North Korea in 2000, “the government lost the means through which they were controlling the population” into thinking that the country??s economic state was satisfactory, Kim said...
...though, with the first presidential election since the Orange Revolution approaching, Ukraine seems to be in danger of losing the tenuous progress it has made since it broke off from the Soviet Union 18 years ago. The country??s economy was devastated by the recession and the partnership between Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko, his prime minister, is now riven by feuding and electoral politics. Especially in light of recent Russian attempts to influence Ukrainian politics, the international community needs to make an effort to show support for maintaining democratic government in Ukraine and to demonstrate its commitment...
...high hopes coming into the race after a successful fall season. The two squads secured their spots at the ACCs two weeks ago at the Erwin Schell Trophy at MIT, where each Harvard team took fourth place. The top seven continued on to the championship regatta, which pitted the country??s best 18 teams against each other...
While higher GDP numbers are generally perceived to mean a country is more economically successful, Fitoussi, who joined the discussion through a video conference call, said that socially harmful activities can also lead to an artificial increase in a country??s GDP. For example, he said an increase in road traffic would drive up oil consumption and lead to larger GDP numbers that “obviously misrepresents the social wellbeing...