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...DANGEROUS IS NORTH KOREA? THE answer has long been difficult to divine, given the insularity of the Hermit Kingdom and the erratic behavior of its leaders, first Kim Il Sung and now his son Kim Jong Il. At every turn since the beginning of the crisis last October, Kim Jong Il has repeatedly called Washington's bluff, ignoring warnings and raising the stakes. Kim chose not to buy more time by denying the U.S.'s evidence that he had started a secret uranium-enrichment program. The U.S. and its allies halted fuel-oil deliveries to North Korea; at that point...
...personality around Kim--citizens are told to treat him as a demigod, and pictures of father and son hang in every public building in Pyongyang--but popular disgruntlement is growing, as North Koreans returning from China's boomtowns dispel any notion that life is better inside the Hermit Kingdom...
...cleansing client, this means I spend my days in Thailand ingesting nothing but murky "shakes" of volcanic clay, psyllium husk and watermelon juice?all the while undergoing daily coffee colonics. In Nepal or Mongolia?places with little culinary cachet?fasting might make sense. But in the kingdom of miang khum and larb gai, skipping a dinner of piquant red-curry snapper in favor of clay is just cruel...
...Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is taking his country down that road, even though Thailand is traditionally one of Washington's staunchest military allies. China has the cachet of being the region's new economic engine. And increasingly, Asia's industrializing nations see their future as being intertwined with a Middle Kingdom that will be buying more TVs and DVD players than the U.S. within a decade. America has a lot of old, albeit complicated, friendships in Asia. The challenge now: keeping them...
...Kingdom...