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...Going NoKo Having myself tried to channel James Bond by crossing the DMZ into North Korea with a busload of South Korean tourists, I read Jenn Gearey's report with pleasure and a touch of nostalgia for the government minders, bugged hotel rooms, and forced deleting of photographs that made for a travel experience like no other [Jan. 14]. Hope seemed present: a "unification flag" flew outside our hotel and a KOREA AS ONE banner unfurled during an evening circus show drew the loudest applause of the night. As for generations past who cycled through Hitler's Germany or crossed...
Nowadays, thanks in large part to an understanding of how difficult both technologies actually are - and partly also to the human-cloning fraud perpetrated by the Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk in 2004 - scientists are a lot more skeptical about the significance of each new claim. That's why there hasn't been so much excitement about a report published online Thursday by the journal Stem Cells. The authors claim to have created cloned human embryos that they believe are capable of producing stem cells - the raw material for all of the body's specialized tissues, from heart to muscle...
These days the biggest risk posed by the girls' enthusiastic recitation is that it may drown out the math lesson next door. Basira, a thin 8-year-old whose obligatory white head scarf is actually a cotton dish towel printed with Korean characters, stands before the class. She is learning to read today's lesson, which the teacher has written out on a makeshift blackboard propped up on a wobbly easel. "A vegetable should be washed before it is eaten," she reads aloud as she slowly traces each word with her fingertip. Her teacher beams, and her classmates applaud...
...pacify the North by boosting its parlous economic condition. South Korea's giant conglomerates like Samsung are unlikely to invest significantly until the U.S. removes Pyongyang from its list of state sponsors of terror and also amends its Trading with the Enemy Act, which imposes sanctions on North Korean trade. And billions of dollars, not just from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation...
...businessmen like Kim Cheul Young of sockmaker Sunghwa, the protracted headaches of negotiating with the North certainly seem worth it. He pays his 330 North Korean workers about $57 per month, almost 20% less than what he pays workers in China, and that, along with other advantages on offer at Kaesong, has persuaded Kim to increase his Kaesong production significantly in the coming months and hire an additional 370 North Korean workers before the end of the year. Still, he acknowledges that the success of his business may ultimately depend upon the decisions of Kim Jong Il's erratic government...