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...Klein noted senator Bill Frist's missteps as he has courted the G.O.P. presidential nomination [April 10]. I agree with Klein's assessment of the public's growing revulsion for politicians who put personal job security before defending the democratic principles that have made our country a beacon of freedom. Two people could lead the country away from the lies, poverty and suffering resulting from Republican corruption and mismanagement: Al Gore and Senator Russ Feingold. True leadership is necessary to address the critical issues of global warming, nuclear proliferation, rising oil prices and national security. Brian Campion Burlingame, California...
...Mich., who runs the Seoul-based charity Helping Hands Korea. More than any other Westerner, Peters has become the public face of a network of activists, many motivated by their Christian faith, who have devoted their lives to helping North Koreans, including many living illegally in China, escape to freedom in South Korea. He and others in the network compare it to the Underground Railroad, which took African-American slaves from the South to freedom in the North. The activists are convinced that their cause is as urgent as the abolitionists' was. "When we look back at this...
...could not have children, which caused irreparable strains in her marriage. In October 2005, her mother met Kim Sang Hun--a prominent underground-railroad activist in Seoul who took the case to Peters. The two of them started working on the logistics of Kim Myong Suk's flight to freedom...
...China's religious freedom is by no means absolute. Seeking personal salvation is fine, but public displays of religiosity outside the confines of state-controlled institutions are not. China's history is filled with religious uprisings against the state, like the millenarian cults that helped usher out China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement...
...have apologized to the people for the hardships caused by the movement," says Arjun Narasingha K.C., a key member of the Nepali Congress, one of the seven parties spearheading the anti-King movement. "But in every country's history there is a period of struggle and hardship. Freedom comes at a price," he says...