Word: jong
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...seemed to be decorated with a rainbow after the display of firecrackers." KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, Pyongyang's official wire service, effusively describing Mother Nature's gift to Kim Jong Il on his 59th birthday...
...past, North Korea's main exports were missiles?either shipped surreptitiously to other rogue nations or shot off launch pads to scare Japan and the rest of the world. The missile industry could well be shut down if North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il cuts a deal with the worried West; former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to hurry along such a pact during her visit to Pyongyang in October. In 1994, North Korea mothballed its nuclear weapons program in exchange for oil, aid and a pair of nuclear power reactors from the U.S., Japan...
...import of cultural goods, which ?allowed Baik Soung Ook, president of Deshine.com, to buy the rights to seven animated films produced at Pyongyang's 425 Studio. "Everybody thinks these films must be tainted by ideology," says Baik. "Actually they are very educational." Some are obvious parables of Kim Jong Il's life, but one features an apolitical silver rabbit that Baik hopes to merchandise in South Korea. "My hope is that children in North and South Korea can share the same movies and cartoons," says Baik. "Then they will have something in common to help build a unified Korea." That...
...somewhat improbable scenario of a missile-defenseless U.S. being intimidated by some Third World bully from staying out of a regional conflict for fear of being attacked. The Europeans are unlikely to swallow that argument from a nation whose current secretary of state once warned North Korea's Kim Jong Il that if he even threatened the U.S. with nuclear weapons, he'd be "turned into a charcoal briquette." But, Rumsfeld was prepared to use that awareness, too, warning the Europeans that without a missile shield the U.S. might be forced to launch a preemptive strike against a rogue state...
...from power after calling an election he felt sure he'd win, and then failing to steal the result from a populace that rose up to guard its rejection of his troublemaking. Another autarch actually took a turn toward benevolence all on his own: North Korea's quirky Kim Jong Il reached out kindly to the previously abhorred, non-communist South, summiting gaily with its leader and making Korea's pacification seem, suddenly, like a living prospect. Changes in Russia were more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote...