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...with reporting by Stephen Kim / Seoul And Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson / Washington...
This is a double issue, and there's much more in addition to our health coverage. Shanghai correspondent Bill Powell takes you into the disturbing logic of Kim Jong Il and why the possible succession of his young son is shaping North Korean politics. London bureau chief Catherine Mayer dissects the rebellion against Gordon Brown and the future of the Labour Party. Contributor David Van Biema takes an in-depth look at the Mormon Church, the fourth largest in America, and its current high-profile involvement in politics, while our business columnist Justin Fox explains why financial markets...
...country's Dear Leader has quietly launched an educational offensive to ramp up his country's computing skills and build an internationally competitive IT industry, moves that experts say have been strongly encouraged by Kim's oldest son, Jong Nam, who directs the Korea Computer Center. Grade-school kids are now drilled in Pascal and other computer languages, while gifted students are channeled into science and technology programs at Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University, which some have dubbed the MIT of North Korea. Although currently stalled because of troubled bilateral relations with South Korea, another technical university...
Returning home one spring five years ago from a secret visit to Beijing in his armored, fully wired train car, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il got an unnerving, firsthand demonstration of the potential downside of technology. A huge explosion ripped through the Ryongchon border station, and some officials initially thought it was an assassination attempt triggered by a cell phone. As it turned out, the fireball was more likely the result of two trains' colliding nearby, possibly as a result of miscommunication about changed schedules stemming from Kim's clandestine travels. But regardless of the actual cause, that still...
...fortunes by slowly opening its economy to foreign business - and the lack of convenient cell-phone service has emerged as a major irritant, especially for the hundreds of Chinese firms active there, which make up the largest group of foreign investors. Those investors now actually have an ally in Kim Jong Il, who has quietly reversed his earlier decision and started upgrading the country's dilapidated communications infrastructure. Toward the end of last year Orascom Telecom, the Middle East's largest wireless firm, was awarded a contract to install a national cell system. The 25-year contract, in a joint...