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...When dealing with North Korea, "making sure" is never a bad idea. Going back to 1994, when the Clinton Administration cajoled Pyongyang into promising to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has repeatedly made and then reneged on such accords. But for the Bush Administration, whose officials had once speculated openly about the possibility of forcing Kim from power by cutting off his regime from aid and trade, the agreement signed on Tuesday represented a victory-albeit a small one. Now, the immediate question it faces is simple: Have the U.S. and its four negotiating...
...Chinese territory an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun even ran a picture of Kim's distinctively pudgy progeny standing on a Macau street sporting sunglasses, a man purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's firstborn son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's probable successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita International Airport with a forged Dominican passport and then deported to China, Jong Nam has apparently fallen from favor. That didn't diminish the interest of the media, especially in Japan...
...again. Days after the Macau sighting reports, Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...
Still, while the affair has its concealed agendas--Iraq and a loathing of Blair's support for George W. Bush, a President Britons rate as substantially more dangerous to world peace than Kim Jong Il--the Prime Minister is the author of his predicament. His troubles have their roots in the days when his party reveled in a deep-seated hostility to the running dogs of capitalism. "In 1983 we still had a manifesto committed to nationalizing key parts of industry, promoting an agenda that was set against every interest of British business," says Ed Owen, a former government adviser...
...international financial system). The U.S. has said it suspects the North uses the accounts to launder money gained through counterfeiting U.S. currency and narcotics sales. South Korean sources have also told TIME that some the accounts held at the bank are controlled by elites in Pyongyang ("people Kim Jong Il has to deal with every day," says one intelligence source) who were infuriated by the freeze...