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...under pressure from American human-rights activists and lawmakers, President George W. Bush signed a new law that says North Koreans are, well, North Koreans and eligible for asylum in the U.S. It also authorizes Bush to spend $80 million helping the estimated 100,000-plus refugees who have fled, mostly to China. News about the impending legislation spread in recent months. At least 140 asylum seekers have stormed embassies and foreign schools in Beijing since early September. "For North Korean defectors in China, America is the land of freedom and the most powerful country in the world," says Park...
...recent crackdown by Beijing has made the asylum seekers' quest more difficult. Last week, Chinese guards used cattle prods on a group of 19 North Koreans trying to get into Beijing's South Korean embassy. The defectors, charged Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue, "are undermining China's social order and stability." Maybe so, but these days all they really want is a shot at the American Dream...
...nuclear intentions of Iran and North Korea have been a major source of global angst for more than a year, and the Bush Administration is set to keep the pressure on both countries. Stopping in Seoul last week during a swing through Asia to revive talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the world badly needed to get Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. North Korea "is a danger to every one of its neighbors," he said...
...Powell expressed far less concern about recent revelations that South Korea, a U.S. ally, has been secretly tinkering with the ingredients for atomic weapons. The South Korean government in September admitted it had failed to tell the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about its experiments with bomb-usable materials including plutonium, sparking an investigation by the agency into possible violations of Seoul's nonproliferation commitments. Although the IAEA is not due to report its findings until Nov. 25, Powell, in an interview on Korean television, said the case was as good as closed. "I'm quite sure that the IAEA...
...Compared with its northern neighbor, South Korea certainly poses no threat to peace on the Korean Peninsula. But that doesn't mean the country is innocent of breaking its nuclear promises. Seoul signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1975, agreeing not to pursue bomb-making technology and to submit to IAEA monitoring so that techniques and materials used in nuclear-power plants are not converted to military...