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...These allegations are a major embarrassment for Seoul, which has downplayed human-rights concerns in the interest of improving relations with Pyongyang. North Korea engineered a spree of abductions in the 1970s and '80s, seizing South Koreans, Japanese and a handful of other foreign nationals. In 2002, North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Il apologized to Japan for kidnapping 13 of its citizens and later released five surviving abductees...
...video out of the North; defectors from the area have said that the factory and other buildings shown in the footage are in Hoiryong, a small town near the border with China. The filmmakers, who call themselves the Youth Freedom League, have cells in other North Korean cities, including Pyongyang, says Do, and they want the world to pay attention: "They have put their lives at stake to tell the outside world about the prison-like conditions inside North Korea...
...decades of civil war formally came to an end as the government and southern rebels signed a peace deal that will install insurgent leader John Garang as Vice President. Khartoum announced that fresh talks with rebels in the western Darfur region would start within weeks. Making Nice NORTH KOREA Pyongyang indicated it was willing to resume talks on its nuclear program, following a four-day visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. Weathering Disaster UNITED STATES Rain- and snowstorms killed 28 people in California and caused an estimated $100 million in damage in the southern part of the state...
...news the world wanted to hear: at the end of a four-day trip to Pyongyang last week, a U.S. congressional delegation declared North Korea was ready to return to the long-delayed six-party talks over its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang had pulled out of negotiations with the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia last August, citing a "hostile" U.S. attitude; this time, said delegation leader Republican Curt Weldon, talks could resume in "weeks, not months or years." But, as Weldon conceded, there's a catch: before they come back to the table, the North Koreans want...
...Seoul, believes the North expects the second Bush administration to be more flexible and less confrontational, particularly with the expected departure of Under Secretary of State John Bolton, a hard-liner on the North. "The U.S. has toned down talk of regime change to regime transformation," says Baik. "Pyongyang wants to see if this translates into policy." A less benign dynamic may be at work as well. Pyongyang has a long history of threatening to walk out of talks in order to extract concessions?and cash?from its opponents. The tactic has worked in the past; both Beijing and Washington...