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...targets in the Philippines. The day after the attack a home-made bomb exploded outside a church in Zamboanga; no one was hurt. NORTH KOREA Axis of Not-So-Evil A visit to Pyongyang by James Kelly, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, signaled dictator Kim Jong Il's desire to end his country's self-imposed diplomatic isolation. But Kelly warned that relations with Washington could not improve unless there was clear evidence that North Korea is committed to reform. Meanwhile in Shenyang, north China, authorities detained Yang Bin, the Chinese-born tycoon who runs the North Korean free...
...example. In the spartan North Korean city, few cars motor on the wide streets, and the decaying department store has a meager selection of basic packaged food and dull clothing. At night, schoolchildren gather in the main square to read under the floodlights pointed at a statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder. It's the brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic clogs the streets, and moving walkways roll through a local shopping mall...
...Jong Il, the Dear Leader, is of course more experienced at emulating Stalin's gulags than Adam Smith's capitalism. Yet Kim Yong Sul, North Korea's vice-minister for foreign trade, called the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region "a new historical miracle" wrought by Kim Jong Il "in the hope of achieving prosperity for Korea." Not so long ago, U.S. President George W. Bush branded North Korea a member of the "Axis of Evil," along with Iraq and Iran. But the xenophobic Kim now seems increasingly frantic to mend relations with the outside world and leapfrog his poverty-stricken people...
...with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly lit lecture hall, students learn English by repeating phrases their teacher recites in praise of the Communist leadership. "All the people would unite single-handedly behind the great leader Kim Jong Il," they chant...
...North Koreans can't reform themselves. No less a figure than Kim Yong Nam, the second-most powerful man in North Korea, handed over the zone's authority to Yang in a ceremony last week, while other top comrades watched sullenly from armchairs. Yang, sporting a Kim Jong Il badge pinned next to the alligator on his Lacoste golf shirt, insists the new zone is a sincere effort. "General Kim wants to open a window to the world," he told TIME in an interview. "General Kim wants people to see the good side of capitalism...