Word: jong
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Meanwhile, the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, exhorts his people to persevere in their "arduous march," allowing for no discussion of the possibility that years of Stalinist economic policies may have caused the famine. Yet at the same time, there is acknowledgment that something dramatic must happen. Says relief official Jong Yun Hyong: "We know we can't rely on emergency aid forever." Even to march in place, you need food...
Enough of a disaster to topple its 49-year-old communist regime? Or to scare its reclusive "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, into a last-gasp invasion of South Korea? Last week Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to the South, rattled nerves with a warning that Kim's million-man army was preparing for a suicidal attack. What's more, the North "is capable of scorching" South Korea and Japan with nuclear and chemical weapons, according to an article published by South Korea's largest daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, which secretly obtained...
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reportedly told a group of high-level party officials last year that the U.S. would invade if the West knew the full extent of food shortages plaguing their country. The Chosun Ilbo, a major South Korean newspaper, claimed in Wednesday editions to have obtained the full text of a speech delivered by Kim in Pyongyang last December 7. The paper reported that Kim told party leaders that food shortages could set off widespread rioting in North Korea, despite the government's strong grip on power, and that even military personnel were hungry...
...defection of high-ranking official Hwang Jang Yop -- may have it teetering on the edg e of collapse, and that, more than any promise of aid, is what could bring its leaders to the bargaining table. But North Korea remains difficult to read, and with its leader, Kim Jong Il, still wielding considerable power, anything is poss ible...
...Jong H. Yun '98, Yisei's editor-in-chief, attributed the journal's absence to computer difficulties and a lack of interest among the editors during the '95-'96 academic year...