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...part of an offensive strategy to invade South Korea. To maintain its deterrent capability, the North would need only a few weapons and a rudimentary delivery system, and hiding such a small cache in the country's underdeveloped hinterland would not be difficult. "Verification is definitely a problem," says Jin Canrong, a specialist in international affairs at People's University in Beijing. "But to reach a new agreement they need progress, and today's statement is progress...
...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction But why stop there? Rain's managers believe he could be the first Korean star to break into the U.S. market. Park Jin Young, the pop impresario who discovered and trained Rain, is a talented dancer and songwriter who has worked with U.S. artists like Mase and Will Smith. Since setting up camp in Los Angeles last year, Park has been shopping his prot?g? around to U.S. production companies. Rain almost managed to score a track on rapper Lil' Kim's latest album?but the plan fell apart after Kim was convicted of perjury...
...ELECTED. MA YING-JEOU, 55, mayor of Taipei; as chairman of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT), in the first leadership election in the party's 93-year history; in Taipei. The Hong Kong-born, Harvard-educated Ma beat out the speaker of the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, in a contest to take the reins of the once dominant KMT, which has lost two consecutive elections to President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. The KMT, buoyed by outgoing chairman Lien Chan's recent high-profile tour of mainland China, hopes that Ma will steer the party back...
...night. As much as a third of that is believed to leak during transmission. Some power equipment is more than 60 years old. Theft of copper and aluminum transmission lines for sale as scrap in China is rampant, even though it's a capital offense. Says Han Young Jin, who worked as an electrical engineer in Pyongyang before defecting to Seoul in 2002: "The grid is a mess." Seoul estimates that building the extra generating capacity and lines needed would cost $1.7 billion, but the final price could be many times higher. Turning on the power could cause the North...
...achieve the union of the two systems, Rong assembled an executive staff of former businessmen and talented young technocrats. "We study the market before we pick a project," says Jin Xuping, 67, one of CITIC'S two executive directors. Jin learned capitalist methods before 1949 while working in a family-owned group of insurance, oil and tobacco companies. Sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, he grew vegetables and endured endless hours of political harangue...