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Every few weeks a sleek white ship sails from Japan to the North Korean port of Wonsan. On board are scores of Koreans eager to visit relatives -- along with a cargo that until recently often included such high-tech items as powerful computers and troves of cash, much of it exported in violation of Japanese law. Because Tokyo is reluctant to antagonize either the Kim Il Sung government or the North Koreans who live in Japan, customs officials had previously turned a blind...
Graham Haddock, 77, then the Higgins plant superintendent, can still feel the tension of that June morning, even though the waterfront where he used to watch the landing craft take shape is home port to gambling boats and yachts today. "The news of the invasion came about the time we went to work," he recalls. "We wondered whether it was going to work or not. There was no feeling of victory at first. Not until the 10 o'clock radio news did we get confirmation that we had a toehold in Normandy. I got up and marked...
With its army slowly advancing, northern Yemen ignored a U.N. call for a cease-fire in the country's month-old civil war with the secessionist South. The North shelled Aden, headquarters for the southern rebels, and tightened the circle around the port city. Accusing Iraq and Sudan of reinforcing the North, defiant southerners vowed to resist...
...possibility of a war sketched dramatically different scenarios. In the worst case -- a computerized war game done in 1991 by one Pentagon analyst and never officially accepted -- an unstoppable North Korean force sweeps across the 150-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone, pushes south through disorganized defenders and reaches the southeastern port of Pusan within four weeks, just in time to block the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. The Korean peninsula reunifies -- with the seat of power in the northern capital of Pyongyang...
...five. Relief agencies already feed some 900,000 people, but they claim that red tape from the U.N. and the U.S. is holding up supplies. "They keep talking about humanitarian aid, but people are still starving and black marketeers are making a killing," says a relief worker in Port-au-Prince...