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...birthday of its “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il, last week went largely unnoticed. But although many think that the North Korea crisis has passed because all six parties announced last September that they had reached a preliminary agreement, the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is far from settled. No progress has been made in carrying out the agreement, and North Korea has actually pulled out of the talks, demanding that the US end its financial sanctions against alleged North Korean counterfeiting operations as a condition for a return to negotiation...
...February 25, 2006, the Harvard community was treated to the 21st annual Cultural Rhythms Show. With over 30 student groups performing in two different shows (Hayek was only present at the first), Sanders Theatre was transformed into a cultural medley that ranged from traditional Korean dancing to Latin...
...gulags, which alone houses an estimated 20,000 prisoners, including many jailed for what Pyongyang deems political crimes. If you've heard of Yodok, that's because it has already gained a good deal of international infamy. One of Yodok's former inmates, Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector now living in Seoul, wrote a harrowing memoir (The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag) about his imprisonment there as a young boy. The book was translated into English, and Kang ended up in Washington last year chatting about his incarceration with an unexpected soul mate...
...gulag life, of course. But a musical? A rehearsal in Seoul earlier this month confirmed suspicions that Jung, who defected to South Korea from the North in 1994, is not looking to delight audiences with the kind of toe-tapping jollity dished up on Broadway: while a patriotic North Korean song blared in the background, a dozen actors playing prison guards marched menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing...
...community has been trying desperately to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear-weapons program. South Korea's strategy has been to engage the isolated country economically and diplomatically, so Jung's production was never destined to win official favor. Indeed, Jung says he has been pressured by South Korean government officials on at least three occasions to tone down the play over concerns that it conflicts with the government's efforts to improve relations with North Korea. He claims the officials advised him to characterize life in the camp as less brutal and asked him to remove a number...