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...That's an assessment he shares with the U.S. President. "After a succession of statesmen?Jiang Zemin, Vladimir Putin, Kim Dae Jung, Sweden's Goran Persson, Madeleine Albright?have returned home to tell us how rational, well informed, witty, charming, and deeply popular Kim Jong Il is, President Bush's judgement that Kim is loathsome seems the only honest and truthful one," Becker writes. He measures Kim's odiousness not just in nuclear weapons but in corpses. Kim and his father, Kim Il Sung, are responsible for the deaths of millions of North Koreans, he estimates, including as many...
...including the pressures of Korea's competitive school system, a lack of supervision by working parents, and the ready availability of violent video games and Internet pornography. Kids copy bad behavior out of curiosity, particularly when they can hide behind a group identity, says police juvenile-crime expert Kang Dae Il. Says Kim Yang Young Hee, a counselor at the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, a Seoul-based NGO: "Kids think sexual violence is a game...
...South Korean Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, it was an all too familiar story. Last week, the day before the New Korea Democratic Party, the government's main opposition, was to open a two-day convention, a Seoul police official arrived at Kim's house and told him to "stay at home." "This is totally illegal," protested Kim, who received a 20-year suspended sentence for a 1980 sedition conviction. Last February, in just the same fashion, Kim was put under house arrest for four weeks after his return from more than two years of self-imposed exile...
...athletes at most, presumably so Koreans can't monopolize the medal stands. For most South Korean Taekwondo fighters, then, the real challenge isn't just earning the gold: it's defeating fellow countrymen to qualify for the Olympics in the first place. Four years ago, for example, heavyweight Moon Dae Sung missed the Olympics after losing a last-minute rematch during national selections. He made the team this time around, and in Athens he'll be looking to use one of the strongest left kicks on earth to overpower opponents...
...When a rich brother goes to visit a poorer brother, the rich brother should not go empty-handed. We wanted to provide $100 million of support. But there was no legal way to do it." Kim Dae Jung, former South Korean President, in an interview with the Financial Times, in his most candid remarks to date concerning the secret payments to North Korea made while he was in office...