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...LATEST COVER STORY The Secret Life of Kim Jong Il...
...LATEST COVER STORY The Secret Life of Kim Jong Il...
...agents tried to kill him three times in his days as a democratic activist?also vowed to clean up the agency. But by the end of Kim's presidential term in February, he was embroiled in a scandal over charges that the NIS illegally funneled money to Kim Jong Il to buy the North Korean dictator's participation in a June 2000 summit. "Every new government promises to make the spy service neutral," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "But they all end up abusing it." Roh may fare better. That would satisfy...
...post-Saddam strategic reality would likely increase the temptation for Iran to go nuclear - a cursory glance at the fates of Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Jong-il would certainly help any hard-liner trying to argue the virtues of a nuclear deterrent. But if such a program exists, it would be conducted under extensive camouflage, for the Iraq example also proves that there's nothing like an alleged WMD program to make a case for regime-change...
...scientist wasn't the only one ratting out Kim Jong Il last week. Two North Korean defectors, wearing hoods to protect their identity, appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee and described how the dictator bankrolls his weapons programs by making and exporting narcotics. One of the defectors, who said he was a high-ranking government official for more than 15 years before sneaking out of the country in 1998, said the cash-strapped government began developing poppy plantations in the late 1980s; in 1997, all collective farms were ordered to devote at least 25 acres to the cultivation of opium...