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...fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government spokesman. TIME's Douglas Waller notes that Jiang and Li may have returned to the capital to deal with the defection of North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop, currently ensconced in the South Korean embassy in Beijing. Waller notes that there is a more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short trips, that's a clear sign that Deng has indeed died." It's unlikely that the government would keep Deng's death...
...fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government spokesman. TIME's Douglas Waller notes that Jiang and Li may have returned to the capital to deal with the defection of North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop, currently ensconced in the South Korean embassy in Beijing. Waller notes that there is a more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short trips, that's a clear sign that Deng has indeed died." It's unlikely that the government would keep Deng's death...
BEIJING: Signs increased Tuesday that the war of nerves between North and South Korea over a high-ranking defector is nearly over. Echoing remarks by one of his spokesmen that Hwang may have fled of his own free will, North Korean dictator Kim Il Song grudgingly declared on state radio: "As the revolutionary song says, cowards, if you want to go, then go away. We will defend the red flag of revolution to the end." South Korean Prime Minister Lee Soo-sung told parliament his government was negotiating to have Hwang depart Beijing for Seoul as soon as possible. Letting...
SEOUL: In a surprise move, North Korea moved to ease tensions on the peninsula by backing down from its earlier insistence that South Korean agents had actually kidnapped prominent defector Hwang Yang Jop. Instead, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that if the key member of the Communist Party's Central Committee voluntarily went to the consulate, "he is a renegade and he is dismissed." The announcement followed assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North...
...President Boris Yeltsin will be able to see an agreement through. Then, on a whirlwind tour of South Korea, Japan and China, she will stress American strategic interests in Asia while walking a tricky three-way tightwire linking Seoul, Beijing and Pyongyang over the recent defection of North Korean Hwang Jang Yop to the South. In Rome, Albright gave the world a sneak preview of what she terms her "people-to-people" style of diplomacy, shaking hands with American tourists and posing for photos with French schoolchildren. Nor did her punchiness wane inside government buildings. Capitalizing on her reputation...