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...Defector: N. Korea Has Nukes...
...high-level defector claimed that North Korea has built five nuclear bombs and may build five more, although it lacks the missile technology to deliver the weapons to targets. Kang Myong Do, who defected to South Korea in May and claims to be the son-in-law of North Korean Prime Minister Kang Sung San, said he learned about the secret nukes from a top North Korean official...
...nuke offer weeks ago. Even as relations with the North grew somewhat warmer, the U.S. had to reprimand the South. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci, the chief U.S. negotiator, slammed Seoul for rhetorical attacks on the North and for the wide publicity Seoul gave to a North Korean defector...
Sources familiar with the case have told TIME that the former Soviet informant, who used to work for the first directorate of the KGB, defected about a year ago. But they say Kessler's figures are "highly exaggerated." The defector did have access to hundreds of names, but they included both Americans and non-Americans and were drawn from both KGB and Warsaw Pact files. More important, the great majority were innocent contacts. Only about a dozen cases of suspected espionage originating with this particular defector are being investigated...
...Crimson, in favor of the anti-Establishment Lampoon. After graduation, Kurt spent five years as a writer with NBC-TV's Today show, then wrote for TIME for five years. In 1986 , he created Spy with E. Graydon Carter. Throughout the Spy years Kurt was never a complete defector; he remained our architecture and design critic...