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LIVIN' OUT LOUD As a pulsing center of Asian nightlife, New Delhi has long been up there with, say, Pyongyang. Excluding five-star hotels and private clubs, there are only five bars and three nightclubs in a city of almost 14 million people. And yet, tired of tales from glittering Bollywood parties or raging Bangalore pub life, New Delhi's society writers are now peddling the rumor that theirs is fast becoming a happening capital. So is it? Simply, no. The bitter truth is that the only place ever to have known a paparazzi stakeout is T.G.I. Friday...
...three sons convicted of corruption in the past six months. In the eyes of average Koreans, Kim might as well have taken the bribes himself. Kim spent much of his presidency trying to coax North Korea's reclusive Kim Jong Il out of his lair. His unprecedented trip to Pyongyang in June 2000 lifted the hopes of millions of Koreans, won him the Nobel Peace Prize, and looked as if it would be his greatest legacy. But in the end, even the President's nordpolitik came to seem flawed. North Korea's recent disclosure of a secret nuclear arms program...
...year-old former human-rights lawyer, says South Korea's security can be assured by continuing Kim's policies. He wants to press Pyongyang to dismantle its atomic weapons program without halting the flow of public and private money from Seoul, which amounts to about $250 million annually. Lee prefers the stick to the carrot, and would halt assistance until the crisis is resolved. "What has (the Sunshine Policy) brought us?" he asks. "It has brought us nuclear weapons...
...Pyongyang's revelation that it hasn't stuck by the accord suggests it has been pursuing a two-track strategy to get the bomb. Instead of plutonium, the fissile material for atomic weapons can also be enriched uranium. (That's how the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made.) In a report to Capitol Hill staffers in the U.S. last week, the CIA said Pyongyang in 2001 started seeking materials to build a production plant to turn out enriched uranium in large quantities. If the facility comes online in two or three years, as the spy agency suggests it could, North...
...Earlier this month, the U.S. suspended oil shipments until Pyongyang agrees to dismantle its nuclear program. So far, there's no sign the North Koreans are willing to play along. In fact, with the 1994 deal as good as dead, some experts warned Pyongyang could retaliate by taking its original reactor program out of mothballs and finishing work on two others. In its report last week, the CIA warned North Korea could in "several years" be churning out up to 281 kg of plutonium a year?enough for dozens of new nukes. No doubt Radio Pyongyang will keep us informed...