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...Friends and family members have long insisted that he was kidnapped by North Korea, but couldn't prove their claims. South Korean prosecutors may have solved the mystery?and also created a diplomatic headache for Seoul. Earlier this month, they indicted a suspected North Korean agent for alleged involvement in a kidnapping ring that is suspected of seizing at least 16 people in China, including Rev. Kim. According to a copy of the indictment obtained by TIME, the suspected abductors operated under instructions from a senior North Korean state-security official tasked with "kidnapping defectors and others working against...
...President George W. Bush was likely including North Koreans when, in last Thursday's inaugural address, he vowed: "When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you." Some residents of the authoritarian state may not need much encouragement: earlier in the week, a Seoul-based human-rights group released an anti-regime video that it says was produced by dissidents in the North. Following some jerky shots of a market, a high school and a factory, the camera pans across a poster that declares: "Down with Kim Jong Il!" in Korean characters scrawled in red ink. "People...
...ACQUIRED. KOREA FIRST BANK, the country's eighth-largest lender, by British bank Standard Chartered after a fierce bidding war with rival HSBC Holdings; for $3.3 billion; in Seoul. The deal represents the biggest-ever foreign investment in South Korea's financial sector...
...Baik Hak Soon, a North Korea analyst at the Sejong Institute in 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...
...hectic and controversial year, Australia's Federal Police Commissioner seemed as likely to turn up in Jakarta, Seoul, Dili, Nuku'alofa, Honiara or Lae as in his home base of Canberra. Mick Keelty, 50, is the region's premier crime fighter at a time when law enforcement is anything but a desk job. The force he leads is charged with fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, people smuggling, identity theft, sexual servitude and child pornography. The A.F.P.'s first duty is to Australia, but on Keelty's watch it has also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police...