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...wound up a three-nation Asian tour with agreement from China's Jiang Zemin to help promote dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea. But Pyongyang rejected any suggestion of talks, saying Bush's criticisms of North Korea, made during a visit to South Korea, had insulted leader Kim Jong...
...news out of the democratic people's republic of korea hasn't been great for, oh, five decades or so. And lately it's only getting grimmer amid drought, floods, widespread human misery and the ever-removed antics of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. But Pyongyang's propaganda machine?now on the Net!?bravely soldiers on, reporting five or six major news events every day. (Recent samples: "Many Goat Farms Appear," "Rare Squid," "Reception Given at Russian Consulate General.") Now comes a ray of hope?no, make that a beacon of an incontrovertibly glorious future! In August, Kim visited...
...literature could fail to incorporate the events of Sept. 11," says literary agent Ed Victor, whose clients include Frederick Forsyth and Erica Jong. "The imagery was so profound and the event so vivid and tangible that no one was left unaffected. As T.S. Eliot said, 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality,' and my writers are taking that...
...three members of the team, computer science concentrators Brendan D. Connell ’02, Yuen-Jong Liu ’04 and Vladimir S. Novakovski ’05, were selected in an October contest of the Harvard Computing Contest Club which was open to the entire Harvard community...
...Decades later, Kang saw a less laudable side. During the 1997 presidential campaign, Kim knew he couldn't win enough seats to govern because the bulk of his support was in Cholla. So he joined with ultra-conservative Kim Jong Pil, the United Liberal Democrats party leader who bolted from the ruling coalition last week. Many saw it as a pact with the devil. In 1961, J.P. (as he is known) had set up the notorious Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which harassed the future President and regularly interrogated and tortured his aides. (J.P. was Prime Minister when Kim was kidnapped...