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...civilian, military and U.S. targets in the Philippines. The day after the attack a home-made bomb exploded outside a church in Zamboanga; no one was hurt. NORTH KOREA Axis of Not-So-Evil A visit to Pyongyang by James Kelly, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, signaled dictator Kim Jong Il's desire to end his country's self-imposed diplomatic isolation. But Kelly warned that relations with Washington could not improve unless there was clear evidence that North Korea is committed to reform. Meanwhile in Shenyang, north China, authorities detained Yang Bin, the Chinese-born tycoon who runs...
...says. “You’ve never seen it?” There’s a knock at the door and one of the boys scrambles over to the peephole and opens the door for Robin S. McNamara ’06 and Kim M. Chen ’06. The group gets bigger, drunker and more anxious to party. There is some talk of work to be done for Monday, but Von Tobel will have none of it. “Quite frankly,” she says as she raises her glass...
...1990s, Pyongyang tried to lure capital to North Korea's Rajin-Sonbong free trade zone, which also has its own legal code, but little has been developed. In a black box of a state where assessing political risk is like reading chicken bones, how can investors be sure Kim won't just pull the plug on the whole experiment...
...That Kim chose as his principal change-agent a mainland Chinese businessman with Dutch citizenship is, in itself, an acknowledgment that the North Koreans can't reform themselves. No less a figure than Kim Yong Nam, the second-most powerful man in North Korea, handed over the zone's authority to Yang in a ceremony last week, while other top comrades watched sullenly from armchairs. Yang, sporting a Kim Jong Il badge pinned next to the alligator on his Lacoste golf shirt, insists the new zone is a sincere effort. "General Kim wants to open a window to the world...
...Then again, Sinuiju's chief executive has credibility issues of his own. Yang, who says he has small agriculture-related holdings in North Korea, was told by government officials during a January business trip to Pyongyang that Kim had hand-picked him to run the SAR. On the mainland, Yang's fortune is rooted in an orchid seedling business he built into Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) Co., which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A hardy perennial himself, Yang was orphaned at five, graduated from China's naval academy and, after winning a scholarship to study...