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...girl from Seoul, South Korea encountered a multitude of problems because she only received a tourist visa from the government, despite having registered for full-time enrollment at the Summer School...
Upon arriving in Detroit, she was sent back to Seoul for lacking a student visa, but could not initially obtain one because American customs officials had confiscated her I-20 form, which is required in exchange, Queen said...
...than 15,000 U.S. troops stationed just south of the Korean peninsula's Demilitarized Zone?well within range of North Korean artillery. But the trip wire?the boots-on-the-ground guarantee that an attack on South Korea would automatically bring U.S. intervention?may soon be gone. Last week, Seoul and Washington announced U.S. troops will pull back at least 50 km to bases south of Seoul over the next few years. It makes military sense?a few thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North Korean military...
...embroiled in a scandal over charges that the NIS illegally funneled money to Kim Jong Il to buy the North Korean dictator's participation in a June 2000 summit. "Every new government promises to make the spy service neutral," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "But they all end up abusing it." Roh may fare better. That would satisfy Kim Nak Joong, who admits meeting North Koreans but denies spying for them. "What I went through was beyond description," he says. "No one should have to go through it again...
...million of his countrymen. Some observers say sanctions would be a waste of time, because foreign trade with the North is already negligible. "Shortages of power and food are a natural thing to [North Koreans]," said Lee Sang Man, an economist at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. Shutting down legitimate trade and aid would punish ordinary citizens, but it would probably do little to undermine Kim, who maintains power through repression and a system of payoffs and perks for his top officials, bankrolled by drug trafficking and covert arms sales. Only a full-scale blockade could choke off those funds...