Word: jong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North Korean defector. Lee Han-young, a nephew of the first wife of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, was reported to be brain-dead after two gunmen shot him in the head outside a friend's apartment Saturday. Police found two shells at the site from the weapon of choice for North Korean agents, a Belgian Browning pistol. While Seoul's response to Lee's death...
SEOUL: Beijing is on the spot now that Hwang Jang Yop, a key member of North Korea?s ruling party and a close confidant to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, has launched an attempt to defect to South Korea via China. In Japan at a North Korean-sponsored international seminar, Hwang reportedly changed planes and departed Tokyo for Beijing. Hwang, 72, is a relative of late North Korean President Kim Il Sung and a prize product of the system, a graduate of North Korea's elite Kim Il Sung University and Moscow University in the late 1950s. Hwang would...
...together under one roof? What subject is so vital that BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD and TAMA JANOWITZ both want to hold forth on it? The future of Diana, Princess of Wales, naturally. Romance Classics, a new TV channel, gathered (clockwise from top left) JACKIE COLLINS, Bradford, ERICA JONG, JOAN RIVERS, NANCY FRIDAY, Janowitz, OLIVIA GOLDSMITH and RONA JAFFE to plot a sequel to the sensational epic that has been Diana's first marriage. Suggestions included Diana's having her own talk show ("A listening show," said Goldsmith, who would also like to see Diana in a follow-up to The First...
...primitive North Korean subs that patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused to accept a protest note last week. By Seoul's count, last week's episode, while the most dramatic...
...Sherrod, Merav Shohet, Shirin A. Sinnar, Sonja B. Starr, Rebecca E. Stich, Ellen H. Takata, Connie W. Tang, Gilbert H. Tang, Xiomeng Tong, Heidi S. Towne, Omri Traub, Miriam Udel, Katherine Unterman, Ellis M. Verosub, Jason W. Veysey, David M. Weld, Bradley L. Whitman, Benjamin Wilkinson, Hong Yu, Jong H. Yun, Shouyee Yung, Ian G. Zacharia and William M. Zerhouni