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...test -- but the launching of Pyongyang's very own Sputnik. "Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket," KCNA said Friday. Not only that, but this little orbital wonder is apparently transmitting "the song of General Marshal Kim Jong Il" across the globe at this very moment...
...delightfully quaint piece of propaganda? There's no official word yet from U.S. intelligence. Perhaps North Korea is backtracking on its earlier belligerence out of fear that food aid will be withdrawn -- or KCNA is getting a little carried away in advance of Kim's inauguration Saturday. Still, it beats fireworks...
...says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "This is like the test track". Customers such as Iran and Pakistan, who both bought dozens of North Korean Rodongs, are bound to like the look of this new 1,240-mile-range Daepodong -- which is literally twice the missile the Rodong was. Kim Jong Il, soon to be installed as president, has a nice firework for his inauguration. And North Korea's starving millions -- well, they get the satisfaction of seeing their nation trying to establish itself as a regional power. "Plainly," says Thompson, "this is one of the world's most loony...
Indeed, Pullman is working on deals with Crosby, Stills and Nash; the heirs of author John Steinbeck; and writers for the Seinfeld TV show. He's also working on a deal with songwriters for Tupac Shakur, Kim Carnes, Heart, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Rod Stewart and Pat Benatar. Their royalties and those of other songwriters will be bundled and sold as bonds by year-end, Pullman says. He predicts half a dozen similar deals next year...
Some U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea has resumed a serious effort to build nuclear weapons. Evidence from multiple sources has persuaded them that leader KIM JONG IL is pushing the construction of a new reactor--underground to confound U.S. spy satellites--and trying to design usable atom bombs, possibly including missile warheads. Other analysts disagree; some Clinton Administration officials think hard-liners are leaking these reports to choke off congressional support for oil shipments to North Korea, which the U.S. pledged to fund in 1994 as part of a deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even...