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...this month, as it happens, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) aired a shocking report on North Korea’s sprawling network of concentration camps, modeled on the Soviet Gulag, which holds an estimated 200,000 or more inmates. The documentary’s centerpiece was an interview with Kwon Hyok, a former North Korean intelligence agent who defected to the South in 1999. He was once the head of security at Prison Camp 22—where, he now alleges, chemical weapons were tested on prisoners. “I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating...
According to the tournament program, tae kwon do is the most popular martial art form in the world and is practiced by more than 20 million people in over 120 countries...
...kwon do is not as well known as some of the other martial arts,” Lee said. “Most people don’t know it’s an Olympic sport...
Chris M. Franklin, 21, a 2nd-dan black belt who teaches children at World Class Tiger Kings in North Carolina, said tae kwon do—which means “the way of the hand and foot” in Korean—is about much more than kicks and punches...
...love everything about tae kwon do,” Franklin said. “It’s a sport, but it’s more like a way of living...