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...Megumi Yokota's have long aggravated the historically rancorous relations between North Korea and Japan. North Korea's Stalinist regime had consistently denied that it had anything to do with a series of disappearances in Japan two decades ago. No longer. In a stunning about-face, North Korean President Kim Jong Il confessed at a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi last week in Pyongyang that his country's spies had indeed abducted 13 Japanese citizens from 1977 to 1983. He blamed the kidnappings on special-forces agents "carried away by a reckless quest for glory," apologized for their...
...Kim confirmed the prevailing theory that the abductees were used to teach Korean spies how to impersonate Japanese citizens. One victim, Yaeko Taguchi, a Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...
...bursts of light, and special effects that take us on a Fantastic Voyage--style journey inside pieces of evidence. The setup is similar enough to satisfy CSI fans, but the few variations are missteps, especially the grim performances and the broadly telegraphed sexual tension between leads David Caruso and Kim Delaney. Still, in a show where "acting" consists of wearing a lab coat and staring meaningfully at a rivet or a corpse, these flaws shouldn't hurt the ratings...
...Hyok knows big changes are coming to this backward North Korean city situated on the banks of the Yalu River across from China. He has heard that Kim Jong Il, North Korea's enigmatic dictator, intends to turn Sinuiju into a special economic zone. Li and the 4,000 other employees of Sinuiju Shoe Factory are hopeful that the promised boost in commercial activity will improve their meager lot. "This is all for the Korean people," Li says, standing among middle-aged women piecing together black and white sneakers on noisy sewing machines. "It makes the Korean people richer, with...
...built wall erected to keep illegal migrants out. Within the city limits, a kind of anti-North Korea with its own laws and elected officials will be created from scratch. Private enterprise, not state socialism, will guide the economy. A legal code enforced by imported European judges, not Kim's fiats, will regulate the community. Most of the drab, dilapidated buildings that line Sinuiju's quiet streets will be flattened, modern offices and factories built in their place. Pyongyang has even appointed a non-Korean?39-year-old Chinese entrepreneur Yang Bin, reportedly the second-richest man in China...