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...Baik Hak Soon, a North Korea analyst at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, believes the North expects the second Bush administration to be more flexible and less confrontational, particularly with the expected departure of Under Secretary of State John Bolton, a hard-liner on the North. "The U.S. has toned down talk of regime change to regime transformation," says Baik. "Pyongyang wants to see if this translates into policy." A less benign dynamic may be at work as well. Pyongyang has a long history of threatening to walk out of talks in order to extract concessions?and cash?from...
...China. News about the impending legislation spread in recent months. At least 140 asylum seekers have stormed embassies and foreign schools in Beijing since early September. "For North Korean defectors in China, America is the land of freedom and the most powerful country in the world," says Park Sang Hak, a Seoul-based refugee activist and former defector...
...including the now retired Indonesian Minister of Defence, General Wiranto. Charged with crimes against humanity, the eight were indicted for 280 alleged murders, based on more than 1,500 witness statements. The charges brought "new hope to the people," says Jose Luis de Oliveira, head of the NGO Yayasan HAK. "Before that people were feeling frustrated that politicians were not being vocal and nothing was being done...
...many are deeply unhappy that their popular president, a former resistance leader and prisoner, seems willing to put that relationship above key indictments. "For us it is justice first, not development," says Yayasan HAK's de Oliveira. "Justice is not about destroying the relationship between Indonesia and East Timor but it is a fundamental need of the people." JSMP's Belo says people are pessimistic about the indictments, and feel the U.N. too has "washed its hands of them." Others are simply confused. "People feel men like this should have to take responsibility for what they did," says Sister Theresa...
...given responsibility for Daewoo labor relations, Zahner popped in unannounced on union leaders in their spartan office at the Bupyeong plant. He went worker to worker, shaking hands, introducing himself and passing out business cards. "I've been wanting to meet you," he said to Choi Jong Hak, the union spokesman at the time. Choi retorted, "I haven't been wanting to meet you." The union is still burned up over Daewoo's decision to lay off 1,750 workers last year. Leaders blame GM for the redundancies, though the company says it did not demand the staff cuts...