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Former three-star North Korean General Yoo Sung Kim discussed his time in and escape from a concentration camp yesterday in Emerson Hall, strongly rebuking the government of Kim Jong Il and those states that provide North Korea with foreign...
General Kim, who was detained for a year and a half before fleeing, argued that the state intercepts a large portion of foreign aid intended for private recipients. As a result, countries providing aid are inhibiting the emergence of government-independent market activity...
...current regime, Kim argued, is swallowing goods delivered as foreign aid and reselling it to its intended recipients, hurting its efficacy in fighting poverty...
...south of Siwa. They have communicated their findings to the Egyptian government and its archaeological authorities, though the government has yet to make an official statement. Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities is notoriously territorial about excavations and, on occasion, prickly when having to hail the successes of foreign archaeologists. (Read about the discovery of the tomb of Antony and Cleopatra...
...afoul of Sarkozy - usually by speaking her mind in a manner that infuriates government colleagues as much as it thrills the French public. When Sarkozy prepared to greet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007, for example, a visibly disgusted Yade - then serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights - warned that "Gaddafi must realize our country isn't a doormat upon which a leader, whether terrorist or not, can come to wipe off the blood of his crimes." And while Dati knuckled under to Sarkozy's order to run for the European parliament, Yade flatly refused...