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...Year’s Day in 2003, Mike Kim left his comfortable job as a financial planner in Chicago and traveled to the border between North Korea and China—a place where thousands of North Koreans go to flee oppression and famine suffered under a closed communist government. He had no immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern...
...lead at No. 5 with a crosscourt backhand into the corner to take the match 6-1, 6-3.No. 88 Ko extended the lead at No. 1, avenging last year’s three-set defeat against the 2008 Ivy Player of the Year, No. 101 Janet Kim, beating Kim 6-3, 6-2 this season.“Going into this match I was very determined to beat her,” Ko said. “I was very pumped…and gave it all I had. It definitely paid off.”All was looking good...
...Chinese, the North's putative big brother and protector. He has said the only time significant progress was made was when U.S. officials negotiated directly with their North Korean counterparts - a point a senior South Korean diplomat involved in the talks confirms. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...When Kim Jong Il and the North Korean government get on a roll, they really get on a roll. On April 5, Pyongyang fired a missile disguised as a satellite directly over Japan and into the Pacific, in direct contravention of a 2006 U.N. resolution forbidding the North's ballistic missile program. Then, in a life-imitates-art moment, the U.N. Security Council issued what amounted to a strongly worded letter straight out of Team America: World Police condemning the missile test. The North, in response, called this "an unbearable insult," and said it would again fire up its reactor...
...purse in hand. The Asian Americana segment explored what American symbolism means to the Asian immigrant. Patriotic reds, whites, and blues were accented by Asian twists like martial arts headbands. Some carried books about American history. One model ditched his pants for a pair of star-spangled boxers while Kim Wilde’s 1980s hit “Kids in America” blared in the background. The show concluded with Street Culture, when models exchanged their stoic strutting for hip-hop dancing. The men sported shiny Ed Hardy hoodies, jeans, and hats. Women wore baggy cargo pants...