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...Pyongyang, the capital, was like a ghost town?its spotless streets scrubbed clean of the messy bustle that defines most Asian capitals. The highway to the country's second-biggest city is nearly deserted. But our government handlers have promised to show us the Kaesong industrial park, where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial park here, just a few farmers. This is it, our guide informs us. We peer into the distance...
Stalinism means never having to say you're sorry. The truculent Soviet dictator spent most of his life claiming to be politically infallible, and his proteges in North Korea are just as bloody-minded. Over the decades since their invasion of the South was beaten back, the North Koreans have sent down waves of assassins and saboteurs, seized warships and cargo vessels at sea, blown up at least one civilian airliner, hacked U.S. truce guards to death with axes and committed other barbarities without the slightest sign of self-doubt. After Kim Il Sung died...
Suddenly last week all those precedents were reversed. After 11 meetings between U.S. and North Korean officials in New York, Pyongyang made a rare apology. In a Korean-language broadcast to the world, the North expressed its "deep regret" for the submarine incident, promised to keep such things from happening again and sweetly offered to "work with others for durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea...
...efforts which, ultimately, have more value than relief itself. It is true that $25.9 billion could rescue much of Niger from famine. It could buy crates of second line antibiotics to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide. Harvard’s endowment could even de-mine the Korean border eight times over. In doing so, however, Harvard would forfeit the money necessary to cultivate the University’s unique contributions to education and research. The University would merely be accomplishing something that every charity is set up to do at the cost of what only Harvard can do.Granted...
Tikos' site has been buzzing recently about the intersection of technology and style. A recent post pointed out a slick new South Korean cell phone with fingerprint recognition; it can speed-dial 10 people by reading each of a user's fingerprints. The site keeps tabs on the latest hip iPod accessories, from colorful stickers from Germany's Shufflesome for the iPod Shuffle to a stylish new clip from PKOH NYC that keeps earphone cords from dangling...