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...mails to China and to use faxes instead, apparently because the authorities believe faxes are easier to monitor, according to Kang Chol Hwan, a defector and journalist living in Seoul. Now the regime is pressuring foreign aid workers to leave. "The country seems to be closing," says a Western diplomat. "It is not going in the right direction...
...says it still wants help with economic development. But at an economic conference organized by the European Union in Pyongyang this month, officials from the North didn't have a clear plan. "They didn't ask us to help in a transition to a market economy," said a European diplomat who attended. "They barely participated. There was no debate." The country desperately needs to rebuild its economy. But any liberalization could lead to a loss of the absolute political control enjoyed by Kim. The dilemma is evident during a visit to the Kumsung Educational Institute. Boys recruited from around...
...Kennedy School of Government’s John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum yesterday. Former American Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine moderated the panel, which included veteran pollster John Zogby, University of Maryland Professor for Peace and Development Shibley Telhami, Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar, and Jordanian diplomat Jafar Hassan. Zogby opened the discussion by presenting recent polls that gauged attitudes toward America within Arab countries. He said that while President George W. Bush claimed that some Arabs hate the United States for its freedom and democracy, his data paints a different picture. A large percentage of Arabs have favorable attitudes toward...
Chris Patten's always been a busy man: former chairman of Britain's Conservative Party, Governor of Hong Kong, Europe's External Relations Commissioner. At 61, he's in the House of Lords and chancellor of Oxford University. Now he's published Not Quite the Diplomat, a learned romp through the lessons of a life in politics. He spoke with Time's J.F.O. McAllister. you're very critical of tony blair. He's an extremely talented politician, articulate and intelligent, and brilliant at the more vulgar end of empathizing. But I think he's deeply superficial. He skids across...
...like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better Burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." CHRIS PATTEN, former Hong Kong Governor and E.U. Commissioner for External Affairs, recounting a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il in his new book, Not Quite the Diplomat. Patten also dished on other world leaders, saying that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was "not a democrat" and calling French President Jacques Chirac "ignorantly hostile to reform...