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...subs and from Russian missile scientists. (Russian officials last week denied the country's scientists were involved.) With an expected range of at least 2,500 km, the missiles could threaten the continental U.S.?although some experts doubt the North's aging subs could carry out the operation. Says Hwang Jin Hwan, a professor from the South Korean government-run Korea Military Academy: "Even if they've developed these missiles, they can't hit the U.S. mainland because they can't get them across the Pacific...
...with the rest of the world increasingly embracing the sport, Korea's Taekwondo fighters can no longer afford to be complacent. China's Wei Luo, who swept to a convincing gold in the 2003 world championships, looks likely to beat South Korean Hwang Kyung Sun in the 67-kg women's event, while Taiwan's Chu Mu Yen and Chen Chih Hsin are both strong gold-medal contenders. "In the case of Europeans and some Asian athletes, there is no skill difference compared with us," South Korean Taekwondo coach Kim Sae Hyeock told the JoongAng Daily. "It's just...
...meeting of South and North Korean writers, the first such get-together in nearly 60 years. And to the surprise of foreign observers, new topics are appearing in North Korean fiction: poverty, starvation, even the hint that not all officials are paragons of virtue. In 2002, state presses released Hwang Jin Yi, a ribald historical novel by Hong Seok Jung, which will be published in South Korea in September. The heroine is a courtesan who encounters starving masses, corrupt officials, and a governor "completely immersed in booze and women." The story is set in the 16th century, and there...
That's what spooks cloning foes, since in this case, the resulting babies would have been not random mixes of two parents but perfect copies of the women who donated the DNA. That, however, is not what Hwang and Moon wanted. "We will never try to produce cloned human beings," Hwang said. What they do want to produce--and, in fact, did--is embryonic stem cells, the biological blank slates that develop into all the body's tissues. Thanks to stem-cell technology, people could become their own tissue donors with pristine, unrejectable cells at the ready to repair damage...
Nobody pretends that Hwang and Moon's findings are ready for clinical application or that they don't raise some disturbing possibilities. But few people deny that they raise some thrilling ones too--precisely what science is supposed to do. --By Jeffrey Kluger