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There are pictures released recently by the Korean Central News Agency, the propaganda arm of the North Korean government, that are meant to give the impression that Kim Jong Il is back running his benighted country after a stroke last summer. And then there are those shown here, of Kim at an indoor swimming pool. He looks old, frail and sick. The pictures, according to diplomats and intelligence analysts in East Asia and Washington, capture reality. Kim is 68, and though it is thought he has made a reasonable recovery, he has apparently not resumed all his duties as North...
...armament with a range of about 2,500 miles to 2,800 miles (4,000 km to 4,500 km), which would bring Hawaii within its reach. On March 31, Pyongyang announced that it will charge two young American journalists with "hostile acts," claiming that they strayed into North Korean territory from northeastern China. And despite a worsening economy, the regime said it would toss out international-aid workers who were delivering desperately needed food rather than accede to demands from both the U.S. and South Korea that the government allow aid agencies to monitor where the food goes...
...WWII, he attended the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union with the other Allied leaders, and the end result was the partition of Germany and the creation of the United Nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fulfilling a campaign promise, traveled to Korea as President-Elect in December 1952 - the Korean War ended seven months later. And, of course, Ronald Reagan helped bring the Cold War to a close when he gave his 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall, challenging Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall...
...real place to learn about North Korea is probably China. The country, especially the northeast, has the largest population of North Korean exiles and refugees. That fact was probably not lost on Lee and Ling. Many of the refugees get help from human rights groups. One such activist, Tim Peters, who has visited this region in the past, thinks the two American TV journalists were trying to report on the plight of stateless orphans, the offspring of trafficked North Korean women repatriated back to the North. "It's a mushrooming problem," says Peters, who notes that authorities have been making...
...would you rate the South Korean pop singer Rain on the TIME 100 poll? Cast your vote...