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...live on government rations, the majority of North Koreans in urban centers get almost everything from officially sanctioned markets. "This is exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union in 1989," before it collapsed, says Leonid Petrov, a North Korea expert at the Academy of Korean Studies south of Seoul. "Nobody believes in the old socialist ideology anymore--they believe in money...
...instead for the nausea, headaches and grumpiness that can occur when fatty foods, caffeine and alcohol are flushed from the system. The good news is that detox programs get easier after the initial shock. "What was strange was that there was no hunger at all," says Kurt Thompson, a Seoul-based marketing-research manager, of his weight-loss vacation at the Farm?a health retreat in the Philippines' lush Batangas province. The self-confessed "300-pound man mountain" shed 12 pounds (5.4 kg) thanks to "green juices and cleansing drinks, along with massages and lots of natural supplements." The absence...
...hunger strike by JIYUL, 48, Buddhist nun and environmentalist who has battled Korean authorities for four years over a high-speed train tunnel through the ecologically sensitive Mount Cheonseong area; after the government agreed to a three-month suspension of construction and a new environmental impact assessment; in Seoul. Severely weakened by the fast, her fourth since Feb. 2003, Jiyul will enter a hospital to recover...
...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...
...Last week, under pressure from opposition lawmakers, Seoul asked Beijing to reopen Rev. Kim's case. Kim Mun Soo, a lawmaker from the opposition Grand National Party who visited Yanji earlier this month, says China has information about the pastor's disappearance that it hasn't shared with South Korea. Kim said Seoul should also get tough with Pyongyang, which still holds an estimated 468 kidnapped South Koreans. Says Kim: "It is the fundamental duty of a state to protect its citizens. South Korea has been terrible at this." Friends of Rev. Kim are losing hope that he is still...