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...stunningly beautiful dancer who caught the eye of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and became his favorite companion. But as with much of the internal workings of the world's most secretive regime, little else is known about Ko Young Hee?not even whether she and Kim were ever married. Now, South Korean authorities are scrambling to decipher rumors that Ko has died?either of breast cancer following treatment in Paris or by succumbing to injuries sustained in a car accident last year. Seoul has learned that she was seriously ill, according to a source close...
...Pyongyang watchers are trying to divine what Ko's death might mean for the leadership of North Korea. Some observers believe her eldest son, Kim Jong Chol, in his early 20s, is the strongest contender to succeed his father, who himself inherited the job of paramount leader?although her youngest son, Kim Jong Woon, is rumored to be his father's favorite. The only other known contender is 33-year-old Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Il's son by another union, but he's believed to have been in the doghouse since 2001 when he was caught trying...
...arms in a banzai cheer and threw back his head as a strange wail swirled through the stadium and skittered across the surface of the pool. Delivered in a high-pitched tone perhaps best detected by dogs, the shrieks were the unmistakable call of the teenage Japanese girl. "Ko-chan, congratulations," the girls screamed in unison, waving little rising-sun flags in precise formation. "Little Ko, we love...
...grenade have been handed over. But few expect the grace period will do more than convince a few civilians to come forward?Taiwan's gangsters won't be participating. "Most gang members say there are only two things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern Taiwan closed in on fugitive Chang Hsi-ming and three members of his kidnapping ring last week, they were...
...Poverty, fear, the paucity of opportunities, the remorseless persecution of the best and the brightest, the slow extinguishing of hope: what was once unimaginably bad in Burma has grown worse with each passing year. And yet, while writing this, I receive an e-mail sent at great risk by Ko Myo in which he has listed the names of 10 men, women and children, aged 13 to 70, along with their professions: housewife, merchant, student, mother-to-be. These people, he says, were all incinerated by the state thugs at Kyaukse. For their sakes, I believe, pessimism...