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...abstain on sanctions against Iran, says one Western diplomat in Beijing, China will probably insist on an absolute, "don't-even-think-about-it" rejection of any U.S. plans to take North Korea and its nukes to the Council. China doesn't want to put more pressure on Kim Jong Il's regime. It wants less - in part so that fewer refugees from North Korea cross into China. Further, Hu believes China's own stability is enhanced by the continued modernization of its military. To Beijing's fury, Washington last year pressured the E.U. to maintain restrictions on weapons sales...
Keeping track of Kim Jong Il on his secret trips outside North Korea is a bit like trying to detect a subatomic particle: proof of his passing can be gleaned only from disturbances in his wake. Witness last week's surge in speculation when Kim was said to be visiting China, stopping in several cities before making his way to Beijing where it was thought?maybe?he might discuss the future of his nuclear-weapons program with Chinese leaders...
...request for samples had led him to do a retest, and to his surprise, he said, they were invalid. His theory: someone had switched the samples when they were at MizMedi to be photographed (his lab didn't have the right microphotography equipment) and stored. Later he accused Sun Jong Kim, one of the scientists cornered in Pittsburgh by MBC, of making the switch...
...forge the suspect photographs. Kim also says Hwang paid him a total of $30,000 (that Kim has returned to the university), which Hwang says was simply to cover Kim's living expenses in Pittsburgh. Korean press reports suggest that total payments to Kim and a colleague, Park Jong Hyuk, may amount to more than $50,000. These allegations are being investigated by Korean prosecutors...
...most serious known health threat facing the world is avian flu." LEE JONG WOOK, World Health Organization director-general, on the H5N1 virus that killed at least 36 people in Asia...