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...from Russian missile scientists. (Russian officials last week denied the country's scientists were involved.) With an expected range of at least 2,500 km, the missiles could threaten the continental U.S.?although some experts doubt the North's aging subs could carry out the operation. Says Hwang Jin Hwan, a professor from the South Korean government-run Korea Military Academy: "Even if they've developed these missiles, they can't hit the U.S. mainland because they can't get them across the Pacific...
...South and North Korean writers, the first such get-together in nearly 60 years. And to the surprise of foreign observers, new topics are appearing in North Korean fiction: poverty, starvation, even the hint that not all officials are paragons of virtue. In 2002, state presses released Hwang Jin Yi, a ribald historical novel by Hong Seok Jung, which will be published in South Korea in September. The heroine is a courtesan who encounters starving masses, corrupt officials, and a governor "completely immersed in booze and women." The story is set in the 16th century, and there is no reason...
...that get-out-of-town itch. "I didn't want to live next to my parents forever," she says. She scanned the papers for any opportunity, applying to schools and getting rejected, before she spotted a notice for a new school of film arts to be run by Xie Jin, a director whose career spanned 40 tumultuous years of Chinese history, from the Great Leap Forward in the late '50s to the market economy of the late...
...Jin must have been particularly moved: he hired Zhao to star in a movie, Nu Er Gu (Penitentiary Angel). "My performance was pretty terrible." says Zhao, "but if you've been in a film by a famous director, no matter how well you did, then other less-famous directors will want...
...candlelight vigil. "From now on we have to fight even harder for Roh," says Kim Yong Seok, a member of Nosamo, an organization of Roh's most loyal backers. In Seoul's glitzy Myongdong district, even opposition supporters were put off by the political mess. Businessman Kang Jin Woo says he voted for the GNP during the 2002 presidential race, but is disgusted by its latest maneuver. "It's too hasty, too early to judge Roh," he snaps, sipping beer...