Word: koreans
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...agreed to abandon plans to convert nuclear-reactor fuel into nuclear weaponry when the U.S. and Japan agreed to pay for oil imports and build two new reactors. And South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung has embarked on a policy of engagement, offering food and investment from South Korean companies. As thanks, North Korea has sent fishing boats into South Korean waters and provoked a naval clash (Seoul's forces sank one ship), dispatched a suspected spy vessel into Japan's seas (Japanese self-defense forces opened fire for the first time since World War II) and arrested foreigners...
...Pyongyang's missiles hit a target? Probably not for a long time. But, says Gill Jung Il, a North Korean specialist at Seoul's Yonsei University, "accuracy is not the issue here. Perhaps the fact that Taepo Dong lacks accuracy makes it a more potent weapon. No one would know where it would hit." It's hard to think of a more perfect weapon for North Korea: unpredictable and potentially dangerous...
...North Korea?s nuclear program and its missile exports, but strong warnings against the latest planned test -- and military maneuvers by its regional enemies -- may goad Pyongyang into pressing the button. "By making so much of it we may have turned this missile firing into a test of North Korean manhood," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Being more discreet may give Pyongyang more of a way out." Which may be why, despite the threats of harsh economic retaliation, Washington is arguing strongly that a $5 billion U.S.-Japanese-South Korean program of nuclear energy aid to North Korea will...
Dedicated cruisers have oceans of opportunity to exercise their mind offshore. Many cruise lines bring lecturers and experts on board, but few do it better than the Delta Queen Steamboat Co. The Civil War and the Korean War are themes on this year's agenda, as are gardening, history and historic inns. Lectures and courses are part of the package on steamboat cruises that range from a low of $660 per person for a three-night voyage in the least expensive cabin to $9,170 for the highest-category cabin on a two-week trip...
...minority World Church of the Creator suspected in four drive-by shootings Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Illinois and Indiana, apparently killed himself after being chased by police. In his wake he left two people dead -- one former Northwestern basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, who was black, the other a Korean-American shot down outside a church. The chain: shots fired at three black men Saturday afternoon in Springfield (one was wounded); a Saturday night shooting of an Asian student in Urbana; a spree in Chicago.on Friday night that left Byrdsong dead and six Orthodox Jews wounded: and a shooting...