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...three years after the country's rate hit an OECD high of 40.5%. A chastened government launched a campaign to encourage natural childbirth, and the number of prenatal classes was also increased, allowing more women to learn about the pain-management techniques essential in vaginal delivery. "Overall, Korean women are much more educated about the issue," says Kim Jae Sun, an official at the government's Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service. But she also admits that the campaign was underfunded and haphazard. While the country has seen a drop in the cesarean rate, it is not a dramatic...
...music dvds. Cell-phone users can also expect to get months of free access to a catalogue of songs. Nokia will launch its Comes With Music service later this year, reimbursing artists and their labels from expected new sales of its music-compatible phones; a similar service, available through Korean giant LG, will come out in the summer. The first record company to offer its music for both these services? Universal, led by the once skeptical Morris...
...northeast, home to many state-owned companies, has slowed. "The Chinese already have plenty of surplus labor in that part of the country; they don't need or want any more, and that message has been conveyed to Pyongyang," the diplomat says. Publicly, Beijing insists that all North Korean refugees are "economic migrants" who have no right under international law to enter China illegally. International human rights groups disagree, and say Beijing, as a signatory to the United Nation's protocol on refugees, is obliged to give them safe harbor...
...North Korean government in the past has executed captured refugees, but it does so inconsistently. Pyongyang sends some for extended stays in the country's horrific prisons. Aid groups and people active in the so-called underground railroad, which tries to move refugees into China and eventually to safety in Seoul, say the executions this week were probably meant to deter those fleeing because food is scarce. To North Koreans, the period just before the spring barley harvest is known as "barley hill." In the past, failure to get over the "hill" has meant death by starvation, particularly during...
...situation is unlikely to improve. Sources say it was once relatively easy to bribe North Korean border guards to look the other way when people tried to cross over. Not so now. "It appears the North Koreans have increased salaries on the border, or put more senior guards there, over the past year or so, because things are more difficult now," says a Christian activist working under cover in China. This source, whose group claims to have moved hundreds of North Koreans to freedom over the past three years, says the flow is "now down to a trickle." Public executions...