Word: pyongyang
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...Vegas Strip as the world's biggest gambling center. As it has grown, Macau has begun to shed its image as a shady place that handles illicit international finance. When the U.S. Treasury Department in 2005 named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, regulators in Macau agreed to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Given the crackdown, it may well have been embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...
...purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's eldest son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's likely successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita Airport with a forged Dominican Republic passport and then deported to China, Pyongyang watchers say Jong Nam has fallen from favor. But that didn't diminish the interest of the media, especially in Japan...
...China, it has surpassed the Las Vegas strip as the world's biggest gambling center. The territory has also been dragged into the current standoff between North Korea and the U.S. The U.S. Treasury Department has named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, prompting the territory's regulators to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Amid that crackdown it may have been a bit embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...
...this week at Panmunjom "to earnestly discuss utilization of the resources of rivers." For Koreans the tactical use of water has historical as well as practical aspects. In the 7th century, General Ulchi Mundok defeated an invasion of 300,000 Chinese by retreating to the flooding Chongchon River near Pyongyang; the waters helped him virtually to annihilate the Chinese force...
...Washington, with State Department officials wheedling Treasury counterparts to let up, just a bit, on their international campaign against counterfeiting and money laundering, so that a charter member of the Axis of Evil can be lured back to the six-party table. The outcome is still uncertain. If Pyongyang does get its frozen millions back, and the past is prologue, Kim will pocket the money, then detonate another nuke at the time and place of his choosing. He understands that the six-party farce provides ideal diplomatic cover for his unobstructed nuclear buildup. What the other players don't seem...