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...North Korean government, meanwhile, continues unabated in its weapons development, existing in an oddly totalitarian isolation, which produces its own reality. While the North Korean state media reported that the missile had launched a satellite into space, broadcasting "immortal revolutionary paeans" to the heavens, both Korean and U.S. monitors said that the missile had failed to release anything into orbit. "Stage one of the missile fell into the Sea of Japan/East Sea," reads an official report from the United States Northern Command. "The remaining stages along with the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean...
...regarded the launch as a fait accompli. U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy, Stephen Bosworth, has said that launch or no launch, Washington hoped to push on with talks aimed at getting the North to give up its nuclear weapons program - even hinting that the direct U.S.-North Korean talks Pyongyang has always wanted were possible. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...home, and the parties attracted a following among the North's élite. In Kim's eyes, they became too popular. In 2004, Chang was accused of "fostering factions" and placed under house arrest. "Kim became jealous," says Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. But Kim remained close to his sister, and analysts believe that she played a critical role in getting her husband rehabilitated. In early 2006, Chang appeared at a New Year's party alongside Kim, a signal that all had been forgiven...
...despite the fact that Kim has bent over backward to keep the armed forces on his side. He has succeeded in securing loyalty from older, senior officers, intelligence analysts believe. But the economic crisis has put a serious crimp in the cash flows of illicit businesses run by North Korean military officers either directly or through cutouts. Trade with China has plummeted, in part because of the sharp drop in prices for commodities such as zinc and iron ore, which the North exports. That has "seriously cut the incomes of any number of military officials who benefit from that trade...
When news of his death on March 27 at the age of 86 was announced by his family, it was accompanied by a stylish and anecdotal 3˝-page tribute that recalled his coverage of the Korean War; how he'd become the first American television reporter based in Moscow during the Cold War; and his assignments in Rome, Tokyo and Vienna before his pioneering work as a full-time economics correspondent...