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...hope of tipping the diplomatic balance in its favor. It has certainly drawn condemnation from all quarters, and squandered some of the advantage it enjoyed when Beijing and Seoul were becoming increasingly critical of the U.S. over the failure of the talks. But North Korean leader Kim Jong-il will certainly remember how his provoking of previous crises eventually brought diplomatic gains rather than punishment; North Korea's 1998 missile tests, for example, brought direct talks for Kim with South Korea and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Even the Bush administration, which rejected the Clinton-era approach as rewarding...
...Jong-wook, who died of a brain hemorrhage last week at the age of 61, never really enjoyed the protocol demands of his job as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO); he seemed happiest rolling up his sleeves and making things happen. When he took the WHO post in 2003, he startled many experts by calling for access to drugs for three million HIV/AIDS sufferers by the end of 2005. It was a hugely ambitious goal?and focused global attention as never before on the injustice of people in poor countries dying because they could not afford lifesaving...
...noticed there before.” Walter L. Keats ’67, president of Asia Pacific Travel, helped organize the tour package and was originally slated to accompany the travelers. “Harvard is now kowtowing to this lady as opposed to bowing to Kim Jong Il—which is worse?” Keats asked, referring to the nation’s current leader. Keats, who has visited North Korea three times, said that it is important to engage the people, rather than leave them isolated. “None of us would claim that North...
...organization is just one of 70 chapters worldwide. The event featured a screening of the 2004 documentary “Seoul Train,” which shows North Korean refugees seeking asylum in border countries such as China and South Korea. North Koreans who have escaped from Kim Jong Il’s totalitarian regime to bordering China have been sent back to North Korea to face imprisonment or execution, according to Amnesty International. China is a party to the UN Refugee Convention, and human rights activists say that China is required to grant asylum to North Korean refugees under...
...wife were kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging a daring escape to the U.S. in 1986. The couple returned to Seoul...