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...Korea may actually possess world-class expertise. It takes a lot of engineers, technicians and software whizzes to develop nuclear weapons and missile technology. That talent is being put to commercial use in an attempt to spin off a high-tech industry in a decidedly low-voltage nation. "The rocket fired over Japan in 1998 required software capability," says Kim Jin Mook, an Internet entrepreneur in Seoul with North Korean business contacts. "That's proof of their capability...
...West Bank still in Israeli hands. So the important question may become whether Yasser Arafat is prepared to settle for stability instead of the vision of Palestinian statehood around which he'd rallied the Palestinians and the wider Arab world over the past six months. And the rocket attack on the car of one of his bodyguards may also be intended as a warning to the Palestinian leader of the consequences of continuing the uprising. But on the other side, the young militants who have organized and led the latest intifada are ready for Sharon to bring...
...every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region's criminal activity, supplying robbers in Johor Baharu, pirates preying on the cargo ships that chug through the narrow Strait of Malacca and, yes, traders and buyers...
...Samnang gets the weapons from his contacts within the Cambodian army, ex-Khmer mates and the villagers along the 700-km border. He mainly sells AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades. "I sell them to my buyers but I don't know about the end users because there are so many people in the chain. I have some protection from my boss who runs a syndicate. He is close to the powerful people...
Karlen has become adept at controlling the rhythm of his matches, alternating between rocket-like strokes and deftly crafted drop shots...