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...deportation back to the U.S. and turn himself in. As he made his way toward the border, he tied a white T shirt over the muzzle of his M-14 rifle and traipsed for several hours through the bitter cold, stepping lightly so as not to trip a land mine. Not long after dawn, Jenkins came upon a 3-m-high fence. A North Korean soldier spotted him and alerted his comrades, and they whisked Jenkins inside. The American says he realized almost immediately that he had made a mistake...
...coal-mine shaft was called cutting face no. 2, located deep in the mountains of North Korea, near a town called Kaechon, 200 km north of Pyongyang. Coal mining anywhere is dirty, dangerous work, but this was no ordinary coal mine. It was part of a camp for political prisoners in North Korea where "perceived political wrongdoers," as a recent human-rights report put it, are sent without trial or charge for sentences of unspecified lengths...
...greatest abundance, and at a cheap rate." Today, China is the world's largest coal producer, increasing output each year to feed its rapidly growing economy. But the cost in human lives is anything but low. Thousands of miners die in China's coal mines every year. The government put the number at 6,434 last year, but labor- and human-rights groups say the true count could be as high as 20,000. On average there is an accident that kills three or more people every week, while there is an accident that kills at least 10 people every...
...Last week the government announced plans to consolidate the industry into 13 large-scale production groups to allow closer mine oversight, particularly for the smaller, private pits that are the most dangerous. Whether that action ends up being too little, it certainly is too late. Last Wednesday an explosion at a coal mine in China's southwestern Guizhou province killed 16 people...
...duck the real war on terrorism, jeopardize Social Security and take a pass on fixing the health-care system but not O.K. to believe in the separation of church and state. Would those be the famous "moral values"? Thanks, but no. You keep yours; I'll keep mine. Denise Dunne-DeVaney Sekiu...