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Believe it or not, North Korea has a literary scene, although its indomitable muse is Kim Jong Il, who keeps writers on the national payroll to pen books about himself and who has personally written (according to Pyongyang) a nonfiction work on film and even some poetry. Kim Il Sung, the Dear Leader's father, once dubbed writers "engineers of the human soul"?but he and his son have always had strict control over the project specs...
...September The ruling Social Democrats' worst-ever loss in a national vote ratchets up the pressure on Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government Ireland Voters elected Sinn Fein's first M.E.P.; the opposition Fine Gael had its best-ever result Premier Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fáil tumbled to its worst showing in 80 years, marring the government's six-month term as E.U. President Italy Small parties left and right gained; those in PM Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government instantly demanded more power Berlusconi's Forza Italia slipped, but rival Romano Prodi's center-left coalition disappointed...
...very gratifying that this plant has abided by the principle of profitability... intensifying the ideological education among producers to thoroughly ensure profitability." KIM JONG IL, leader of communist North Korea, hailing the productivity of a machine-tool factory, as reported by the state-run Korea Central News Agency...
...claimed that the Brotherhood - legally banned since 1954 - was hoping to train the members to eventually return home to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Senior Brotherhood leader Essam El Eryan told TIME that his group was "against violence." Families Reunited NORTH KOREA After meeting with leader Kim Jong Il, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won the release of five children of former Japanese abductees who were kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and set free almost two years ago. In return, Koizumi pledged emergency aid for North Korea...
...reasonable person would wager that the last place Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would ever want to revisit would be North Korea. The first time he went, in September 2002, Koizumi intended to show his skill and stature as an international statesman. That backfired spectacularly when Kim Jong Il confessed unrepentantly that North Korea had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s?and had no intention of allowing the five survivors to return home. The Japanese public was outraged, the fate of the kidnap victims became Koizumi's biggest headache, and the issue cramped Japan's ability...