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North Korea shocked the world last month when the secretive Stalinist state admitted it was running a nuclear weapons program. Since then, the question on everyone's mind has been: do they already have the Bomb? North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is keeping the world guessing. In a Nov. 17 broadcast, Radio Pyongyang said: "We have come to have powerful military counter-measures, including nuclear weapons." Two days later, the commentary was rebroadcast twice, but the phrase "come to have" was replaced by "entitled to have" nuclear arms...
...gadgets and memorabilia at London's Science Museum. From Russia with Love (1963) arrived at the height of the cold war; Moonraker (1979) took off at the zenith of the Star Wars craze; and in Die Another Day--in a move that will dismay reputed 007 fan Kim Jong Il--evil springs from North Korea, a decision the writers say was made long before Bush came to the same conclusion...
...Johannesburg to study mime and theatre at the Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, from 1981 to 1982. In more recent years, he has collaborated with the Handspring Puppet Company, creating multimedia theater combining animation, puppets and live actors. In 1998, the Company staged a multimedia version of the opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria by Claudio Monteverdi...
Just because North Korea is untrustworthy, however, does not mean that it will never abandon its search for nuclear weapons. The Bush administration should re-engage the North Koreans and act in conjunction with regional leaders to ensure that Kim Jong Il eventually desists from nuclear proliferation...
...fallow without fertilizer, and at least 6 million of North Korea's 22 million people depend on international food aid. Most factories are closed and rusting for lack of power, and the only things lit at night in the North's drab cities are grandiose statues of Kim Il Sung. Hospitals have no heat, no disinfectant, no anesthetic, no rubber gloves. Kim devotes nearly a third of North Korea's GDP to military spending, and finances ridiculous Pharaonic projects, such as the 105-story Ryugyong hotel that towers unfinished over Pyongyang...