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...secret location. But he could soon be testifying before U.S. lawmakers eager for evidence of North Korean human-rights abuses. With Beijing and Moscow insisting that North Korean refugees don't face persecution at home, Park is the strongest living evidence that something is definitely rotten in Pyongyang...
...North Korean labor camp for repeat offenders. He and his older brother overpowered the guard and ran away, Kim says, a serious crime in the rigidly controlled country. He is on another blacklist, too. Through contacts with South Korean missionaries, Kim has become a Christian, which increases his problems. Pyongyang forbids citizens from freely practicing any religion. "This time I would have no chance of getting out of jail," he says...
...worries she is a danger to the local Chinese who are hiding her in their sparsely furnished apartment. Police have begun checking identity cards; in May, authorities posted a notice on her very door about illegal aliens. Before Park first came to China she had heard horror stories?probably Pyongyang propaganda?about Chinese arresting North Koreans, then draining their blood until they were dead. Unable to feed herself and her daughter, she came anyway. After a year, she crossed back to North Korea and was arrested when someone informed on her. Back in her hometown she was considered...
TIME.com: After setting off diplomatic alarm bells on his Korea stance a few weeks after taking office, President Bush has now announced plans to resume negotiations with North Korea. Why has the administration decided to talk to Pyongyang, and how will its approach to such negotiations differ from that of the Clinton administration...
...Rice's disclosure, even before the inauguration, that the U.S. might pull its troops out of the Balkans? Or the new President's telling South Korean President Kim Dae Jung that the U.S. was not going to continue talks with North Korea, seemingly undermining Seoul's "Sunshine Policy" toward Pyongyang? What about the snub to Europeans and the rest of the world when Washington pronounced the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change dead? Or the insistent push forward on missile defense in the face of European opposition that is polite in public and exasperated in private...