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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...
...gory movie experience that has won Korean action films a place in the hearts of all action fans, Torontonians had to stay up late for the screening of Volcano High in the Festival's Midnight Madness section. A high-octane cocktail of apocalyptic nightmare and high-school problem drama, Kim's movie has outsized teen demons, punishing stunt sequences and gaudy special effects that kept the night owls' eyes bugged open. At Midnight Madness, school's out forever...
Person of the Week Kim Jong Il, leader of communist North Korea, is having a hard time making totalitarianism pay. Pyongyang is apparently broke, so Kim issued an apology for the kidnapping of 13 Japanese in the '70s, hoping Japan would reciprocate with billions in monetary compensation for its colonization of Korea. Even evil has to pay the rent...
...Neither of us know where the mines are. We are being very careful." KIM HYE-WON, South Korean army lieutenant colonel, on efforts by the North and South to clear a path through the heavily mined...