Word: ju
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...North Korea signed a historic accord that aims to make nuclear tension between the two countries a thing of the past. Chief U.S. negotiator Robert L. Gallucci and his North Korean counterpart, Kang Sok Ju, penned the documents at North Korea's diplomatic mission to the United Nations today. Included in the deal: North Korea opens up its hush-hush nuke program in return for technology for modern reactors, aid and diplomatic links with...
...nothing critical of the other's position. "It's one of those moments where we try not to say anything at all," said a U.S. official. Lower-level diplomats continued to meet over the weekend, and Gallucci will resume discussions Wednesday with North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju...
...palace coup than by popular rebellion. One rival power center could be the million- man armed forces, commanded by Defense Minister O Jin U. Other potential rebels might be ambitious members of Kim's own family: his stepmother Kim Song Ae; his uncle, Vice President Kim Yong Ju; or his half brother Kim Pyong...
...Jong Il's transfiguration was startling. Until 1975 Kim Il Sung's younger brother Kim Yong Ju was heir apparent. Then, suddenly, Jong Il was publicly hailed as the "party center"; soon afterward, he became Dear Leader to his father's Great Leader. He also became culture czar, producing movies and lecturing on the art of opera. Kim Il Sung spared nothing to burnish his son's reputation. The younger Kim was credited, years after the supposed incident, with saving his father from a 1967 coup attempt. He was named General Secretary of the Workers' Party. Though without military training...
...born Kim Song Ju on April 15, 1912, the son of peasants in what North Koreans now call the cradle of the revolution: Mangyondae, an idyllic spot southwest of Pyongyang. The family had settled there after Kim's great- grandfather, a tenant farmer, was assigned by his rich landlord to keep up the owner's family graves. Those plots have been replaced by shrines to the genius of Kim Il Sung, as much of Kim's youth has been replaced by legend. At the age of 17, for example, he was supposedly teaching fourth-graders the basic doctrines of Marx...