Word: koreans
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...trade his nuclear program for a diplomatic and economic payoff from the West. But among Korea watchers, there are still two divergent interpretations of what Kim is really up to. One group takes the view that his nuclear program is a bargaining chip, the only aspect of North Korean society that makes it interesting to the world, and thus one to be sold at the highest possible price in recognition and aid. They argue that the U.S. should make the benefits of a deal for North Korea more explicit...
...reaction of China's communist leaders has been ambivalent. Knowing that its very legitimacy is at stake, the government has expressed sympathy for worker grievances, extending unemployment benefits and passing new laws designed to curb employer abuses. Blame has been heaped on Taiwanese, Hong Kong and South Korean manufacturers, and the official All-China Federation of Trade Unions (A.C.F.T.U.) has been encouraged to organize workers in foreign- owned factories. But at the same time Beijing has made clear that it will not tolerate unsanctioned labor organizing. Worker protests have been broken up, often brutally, by police. Labor dissidents have been...
TOKYO: In a shocking departure from Japan's usual civility, ethnic-Korean schoolchildren are being victimized by racist assaults and taunts, apparently in reprisal for North Korea's intransigence over nuclear inspections. Last Monday evening, a 17-year-old female student at a Tokyo high school run by Chongryun, a North Korean residents' association, was riding home when a young man tried to push her off her bicycle. The assailant then slashed her school uniform with a pair of scissors. That assault was one of more than 120 verbal or physical attacks reported in Japan by Chongryun since April. Though...
Reducing the Korean Conflict...
Responding to a proposal by North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Young Sam, agreed to a summit meeting in order to resolve tensions over the North's suspected nuclear weapons program. If it comes off, the meeting would be the first of its kind since Korea split in two in 1945. The agreement came at the end of talks between Kim Il Sung and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; thanks to Carter's diplomacy, the North had already agreed not to expel international nuclear inspectors. But the Clinton Administration denied Carter's suggestion that...