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...visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) twice, in 2007 and 2008, and each time I had to do some elaborate fabricating of my own. Like Euna Lee and Laura Ling, I am an American and a journalist, a combination that makes reporting about North Korea perilous. I knew that getting a visa was out of the question if I identified myself truthfully. Even if I did somehow manage to wangle one, tourists in North Korea are strictly policed. They are not allowed to leave their hotels without the permission and presence of government guides. They have their...
...They were chanting against Hosni Mubarak, against Suzanne Mubarak, they were chanting against Gamal Mubarak. Outright chants," says Hossam al-Hamalawy, a left-wing journalist and labor activist, of recent strikes in the Delta. "They had 20,000 people marching for an hour in the city of Mahalla demanding that Mubarak will be overthrown, and then people say that these workers are not political?" Even so, says Beinin, most of Egypt's strike leaders don't belong to political parties, and doubts that Egypt's opposition groups will be able to channel workers' dissent into a unified push for political...
...policy also clashed with that of then incoming U.S. President George W. Bush, who famously told a journalist that he "loathed" Kim Jong Il. A summit meeting between the two ostensible allies went poorly. At one point in a 2001 summit, Bush publicly called the South Korean head of state "this man," instead of President Kim. Kim's supporters in Seoul were furious. Both sides would later acknowledge that the two Presidents had very differing views on how to deal with Pyongyang. (Read about Kim Jong Il's secret family...
...Unlikely Icon Corazon Cojuangco was born into one of the wealthiest families in the islands. Fated to be married off in one dynastic match or the other, she was courted by and fell in love with Benigno Aquino Jr. - known by his nickname Ninoy - a brilliant and ambitious journalist turned politician whose own family was as illustrious though not quite as wealthy as her baronial clan. The marriage would help propel Ninoy's career even as Cory became a cipher at his side, the high-born wife whose social ministrations at smoke-filled political sessions flattered her husband's supporters...
...read the book?' MICHELLE MALKIN, conservative journalist, during an appearance on The View to promote her book Culture of Corruption, which denounces the Obama Administration for a lack of transparency and ethics...