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...presidential campaign, and has signaled since assuming office, that he's not averse to having the U.S. talk directly with the North. The fact that the North has been typically ornery of late - possibly crossing into Seoul's territorial waters, defiantly announcing that it's still reprocessing plutonium - may just be Kim Jong Il's way of getting ready to talk...
...houses and warren of knockoff-electronics booths. While members of Hong Kong's triads - the local underground crime syndicates - play a key role in Nine Dragons, they don't have much of a presence in the real-life Chungking Mansions. Mathews says that though the complex's seamy reputation may have been deserved in the 1980s and '90s, it is safe now. "There are closed-circuit-TV cameras watching everything. The chances of someone being abducted are virtually nil," he says, adding that Chungking Mansions "doesn't deserve a bad light because of what happened [to Ashekian]." Commercial closed-circuit...
...Though the site where she last stayed may be statistically safe (there have been no murders at Chungking Mansions for years), with its shabby hallways, dark corners and din of arguing deal hunters from around the globe, it is easy to imagine someone becoming embroiled in something dangerous there. Connelly, a former Los Angeles Times crime reporter who spent years milling about crime scenes and interviewing victims, says he chose to set a major part of the book in Chungking Mansions because, as a stranger, it is the type of place "where you want to look over your shoulder...
...said it was continuing to produce weapons-grade plutonium and just before an expected U.S. decision to restart talks with Pyongyang, under the auspices of the Chinese, about the North's nuclear program. The combination of the attack and Pyongyang's defiant announcement that it is still reprocessing plutonium may seem like aberrant behavior on what may be the eve of the North's re-engagement with the outside world. But for Pyongyang, it's more like standard operating procedure. "Unpredictable surprises are the strength of North Korea," says Jeung Young-tae, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute...
...energy crisis may be even more critical than what the IEA is saying. According to a report in the Guardian on Tuesday, the agency, under pressure from the U.S., has in past reports deliberately underestimated just how fast the world is running out of oil. The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior IEA official as saying that the U.S. encouraged the agency to "underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chance of finding new reserves...