Word: koreans
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...South Korean government insists such evidence, ambiguous as it is, points to trouble in the North. "It has heightened our suspicions," says a senior official in Seoul, "that something is going wrong for Kim Jong Il." Seoul may be genuinely worried about Kim Jong Il's stability or may be trying to rock the boat in Pyongyang...
...White House soft-pedaled its announcement today. While the Pongyang meeting goes on, nuclear experts from both countries will also meet in Berlin.KIM JONG'S NOT ILL? Don't believe rumors that Kim Jong Il -- the seldom-seen heir apparent to the late Kim Il Sung as North Korean head of state -- is sick or out of political favor, his stepbrother advises. South Korean newspapers, whose own government amplified the rumors, quoted younger sibling Kim Pyong Il as saying his brother would assume power as soon as he finishes mourning their father's death...
...former British colony, a victim of years of Marxist economics, is poorer than any other Latin American nation except Haiti and is staggering under a $2 billion foreign debt load, an amount 10 times its gross domestic product. In 1991 the government of President Desmond Hoyte granted a Malaysian-Korean joint venture called Barama Co. Ltd. the rights to log 4.2 million acres in the country's northwest. When voters elected former Marxist Cheddi Jagan as President in 1992, Guyanese conservationists urged him to revoke that concession; instead Jagan toured Southeast Asia at Barama's expense, and his government...
...despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account for poachers," says Grosz; almost all its parts are salable in Asia. South Korean folklore recommends bear gallbladder for ills ranging from convulsions to tooth decay. As a result, a bear gallbladder fetches...
...Young-sam, offered to provide the North with a modern light water nuclear reactor -- the kind that doesn't produce wastes that can be used in nuclear weapons -- if the North proved it was not making atomic arms. Those are the rough terms of the agreement that North Korean and U.S. negotiators reached Saturday before adjourning talks till September. A point of tension: The North, which hasn't responded to the overture, rejected a Southern proposal for Red Cross talks on reuniting 10 million family members separated since the Korean...