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...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder If you recognize the name Paju, chances are that it conjures up visions of soldiers and barbed wire. As the South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism. Originally...
AWARDED. HA JIN, 49, Chinese-American novelist; the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, given to the best novel or short story by an American author, for War Trash, the tale of a Chinese soldier captured by Americans during the Korean War; in Washington, D.C. Ha Jin previously won the award for his 2000 novel Waiting, and becomes only the third writer after Philip Roth and John Edgar Wideman to win the prize twice in its 25-year history...
...More importantly, China became an invaluable partner in addressing the North Korean nuclear crisis that flared up the following year when the Hermit Kingdom decided to reclaim its place in the headlines from Osama bin Laden by declaring that it had already gone nuclear. Lacking any palatable military options for dealing with Pyongyang but reluctant to accede to its demand for direct talks with Washington, the Bush administration came to rely on six-party talks involving itself, North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea as the forum to negotiate with Pyongyang. Getting the North Koreans to attend, much less...
...APPOINTED. HAN DUCK-SOO, 55, veteran South Korean bureaucrat and supporter of open market economic policies; as the country's new finance minister; in Seoul. Han replaced Lee Hun-jai, who resigned last week, and promised to follow a similar economic strategy as his predecessor. "I will do my best to assure markets [of consistency], revive the economy and establish systems for an advanced Korea," Han said. The government hopes to achieve 5% economic growth this year...
...that Taiwan is not within its jurisdiction. India and China eye each other warily over the Himalayas. And when North Korea collapses?as some day it will?South Korea, Japan and China might yet all find themselves drawn into a contest over the future shape and power of the Korean peninsula...