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...says. Music and life are part of the same continuum, not separate from each other. Even science is an art for Koh—the art of “interpreting data.” Besides cellos and cells, Koh is also concerned about peace and cites exiled Korean composer Isang Yun as his source of inspiration. Although a native South Korean, Koh lived in Germany during his teens, where he learned of Yun. Listening to Yun’s music and biography, he realized that “where there’s pain, an artist needs to express...
...restaurant in South Korea raised $30,000 that the man released Choi, allowing him to travel to South Korea to be with his mother. Choi, who is now a high school student in Los Angeles, shared stories from the 14 years he lived in North Korea, as translated from Korean to English by Hee Kwon Seo ’11, who is also a Crimson news writer. In addition to recounting how his mother, a spy for the North Korean government, was sentenced to death for expressing her disagreement with the government’s smearing of an innocent...
Throughout his entire first term and most of his second, U.S. President George W. Bush has tried pretty much everything to get North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to come out of his cage. He has tried to coerce him with economic sanctions and schoolboy bluster-a policy course that ended on in the autumn of 2006, when Kim tested a nuclear weapon, precisely the opposite of the result Bush intended. Since then, the Administration has tried bribery, offering blandishments like food and free fuel oil in hopes that in return North Korea would stand down its nuclear program...
...Israel put an end to that project, bombing it out of existence. Ever since, there has been a cone of official silence placed around what had happened, with neither Jerusalem nor Washington nor anyone else confirming the operation. Two months ago, in Seoul, I pressed a senior South Korean negotiator in the six-party talks for information about the Syrian-North Korean connection. He squirmed a little and said it was his impression that the so-called al Kibar site was just a "missile factory," not a nuclear facility. That, we learned yesterday, was false...
...they have been on for the last two years: trying, oh so patiently, to come to a deal with Kim that will at least eliminate his regime's plutonium program and the weapons it produced. Everything else, they believe, is secondary, a "sideshow," says a South Korean diplomat...