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...North Korea wants to get its hands on $25 million in funds that was frozen by Macau banking authorities after U.S. investigators linked the money to counterfeiting and other illicit activities conducted by members of the North Korean elite. But critics of the Bush Administration's policy contend that the regime has used the fund freeze to stall because it simply doesn't want to lose its nuclear threat and become just another desperately poor country...
...Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, who had just returned from Pyongyang late last week after securing the return of remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean war, said on ABC's Sunday talk show, This Week that "the nuclear card is their biggest asset so they're going to play it to the hilt." But Richardson also said he believed that the North Koreans have "made the strategic decision" to abandon their weapons program...
...beef that South Korea will phase out over the next 15 years, part of a landmark free-trade agreement reached April 2 between Washington and Seoul that will eliminate tariffs on most types of goods traded between the two countries 400% Premium above global market prices that South Koreans will continue to pay for rice, due to tariffs and subsidies protecting Korean rice farmers that Seoul refused to eliminate as part of the trade deal
...course, God and country, are taboo topics during these mostly tear-filled reunions, but almost all the North Korean families praise Kim Jong Il at least several times during the two-hour live broadcast. "All our education is free and we don't pay for hospital care," says a sixty-something North Korean woman, who is sitting on a long purple sofa with her sister and father in a room that also doesn't seem too conducive to reconnecting with relatives one hasn't seen in more than a half century...
...South Korean relatives nod knowingly...