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...scientist wasn't the only one ratting out Kim Jong Il last week. Two North Korean defectors, wearing hoods to protect their identity, appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee and described how the dictator bankrolls his weapons programs by making and exporting narcotics. One of the defectors, who said he was a high-ranking government official for more than 15 years before sneaking out of the country in 1998, said the cash-strapped government began developing poppy plantations in the late 1980s; in 1997, all collective farms were ordered to devote at least 25 acres to the cultivation of opium...
...ELECTED. DR. JONG WOOK LEE, 58, South Korean infectious-disease expert, as director general of the World Health Organization; in Geneva. Lee, a 19-year veteran of the WHO, will begin his five-year term in July. After his election at the organization's annual meeting, Lee announced that the WHO would set up a $200 million fund to fight severe acute respiratory syndrome, or sars...
...problem with evil dictators is they never seem to know when the time is right for a graceful climb-down. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad should have provided a strong visual cue to Kim Jong Il of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons-development program and come in from the cold. The message even appeared, briefly, to have been received when North Korea agreed in March to sit down for three days of preliminary talks with the U.S. and China in Beijing. But the dim hope that Kim had drawn "the appropriate lessons" from...
...North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden sword to lop off the limbs of an effigy of a U.S. soldier. "North Koreans' loyalty to Kim Jong Il is stronger than that of Iraqis for Saddam," said Kim Sik, a former university professor in North Korea who is now living in the South...
...fellow member of the "axis of evil," Kim Jong Il must have found the rapid fall of Saddam Hussein unsettling. But to North Korea's Dear Leader, America is not only a potential military enemy, but also an insidious moral threat. The danger posed is outlined in "On Vigorously Combating the Infiltration of Capitalist Ideology and Culture," a 16-page North Korean document which TIME has obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos...