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Amid this purge, Jin Weiying, Deng's second wife (little is known of his first), divorced him and married his chief ideological accuser. Subjected to psychologically brutal criticism sessions, Deng recanted--but only to an extent. He refused to give up his support of Mao. "I cannot say more," he told his tormentors. "What I say is true." He said enough, however, to preserve his life. Soon he was able to rejoin...
...east coast of South Korea threw its headlights briefly on a group of young men sitting by the roadside. The area is about 75 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone and has more than once been the scene of infiltration by North Korean spies and saboteurs. Taxi driver Lee Jin Gyu noted the short haircuts and similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took a careful look around. "I went down to the sea," he says...
...Henry Jin Yoon...
...early 12th century, the Qidan were conquered by a northern tribe that founded the Jin dynasty and evidently had many contacts with other empires. Specimens of southern Chinese blue-and-white porcelain found in Jin settlements -- a surprise, since these wares are believed to be a 14th century invention -- may have been gifts from visiting diplomats...
...time Temujen, the future Genghis Khan, was born in the 1160s, the Jin were in decline, and the tribes of the steppe were once again at war with one another. When Temujen was nine, his father, a clan leader, was poisoned by Tatars; the clan then abandoned the rest of the family. Isolated and impoverished, mother and children were forced to eat rats and insects to survive. Temujen eventually reclaimed his hereditary right to be clan leader, and by means of powerful alliances, marriage and a series of battles, he began to annex rival tribes. In 1206 tribal leaders declared...