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...week were scrambling to avoid getting caught up in house-to-house searches. Police have posted notices urging people to report a long list of undesirables, including murderers, rapists and people giving jobs to illegal aliens?and offering rewards for tips. This spring, four members of Good Friends, a Seoul-based refugee aid group working in the area, were held, along with a local translator, in detention for 50 days. They say they were beaten and accused of spying. "The tension is very high right now," says Erica Kang, a spokeswoman for the group...
...United Nations camps, no international aid workers, no help except for the missionaries and small humanitarian aid groups running clandestine operations. It's illegal to try to count the refugees. Locals who help them face fines and jail terms. Says Kim Sang Chul, secretary general of the Seoul-based Commission to Help North Korean Refugees: "There is no comparable situation anywhere else in the world...
...Strictly Confidential I Bet Mom Saw This Call it the e-mail that ate my life. Peter Chung was Master of the Universe, flexing his expense account in Seoul as associate of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm that has among its advisers James Baker III. He couldn't believe his good fortune?and couldn't resist sharing news of it 10 days after his arrival with a small circle of far-flung friends. Wrote the giddy 24-year-old in an e-mail: "I know I was a stud in NYC but I pretty much get about...
...explain Bush adviser Condoleezza 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...
...long a notoriously secretive body, publicly scrubbed itself clean. Members were expelled. New regulations were drafted forbidding members from visiting candidate cities, imposing a limit on gifts and even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was-gasp!-in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...