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...weeks ago, Kang bribed North Korean and Chinese border guards, and crossed the Tumen River to China from the North Korean frontier town of Hoeryong. Like hundreds of refugees who flee totalitarian North Korea every year, Kang has plenty of reasons to leave family and home, but one gnaws at her: hunger. Kang (not her real name) says she has been surviving on corn and noodles for the past few months. With planting season in the North just beginning, food stores are short and many townspeople aren't getting enough to eat, she says. North Koreans used to be able...
...Kang and millions of her fellow North Koreans are the overlooked victims of the Korean peninsula's nuclear crisis. It has been nearly one year since North Korea walked out of the six-party talks, the multilateral forum that was created to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons ambition. Last week, there was another round of unproductive exchanges: after a meeting with North Korean officials in New York, the U.S. State Department announced that the North would be returning to the negotiating table. A day later, North Korea denied making that commitment. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister...
Harvard began its spring season with a tri-match against Dartmouth and Brown. Junior Jennifer Cronan, next year’s captain, rejoined the team after a semester abroad and helped the Crimson place first. With Loncke finishing in first place, Cronan in third, senior J.J. Kang in fifth, freshman Debbi Amanti in ninth, sophomore Erin Wilson in 10th, Baizer in 11th, and freshman Jessica Hazlett in 14th, the team broke Harvard’s record for 36 holes. The team’s total of 634 beat the previous record by 10 strokes...
...departure of seniors Kang and Baizer, solid players on the course and excellent leaders off of it, will be hard for Harvard to overcome, but with new recruits coming in and the return of an injured teammate, sophomore Jacquie Rooney, the team is optimistic for next season...
...Mike Wood, had borrowed the book-which includes ample accounts of steamy sex-play-and had returned Bush's copy that day. Sources familiar with Bush's current bedside favorites say he is reading The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recommended the book, and now Bush is encouraging his staff to read it too. They'll get to it soon enough. They're all still reading I am Charlotte Simmons...