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...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...
...Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said his government would make no revisions to history textbooks in response to charges of inaccuracy. China and South Korea have both demanded extensive changes to a textbook, approved by Tokyo this year, which Beijing says "advocates imperialism and whitewashes Japan's history of aggression." Seoul objected to the book's justification of Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula and demanded that 35 passages be revised. Tokyo argues that the book, to be prescribed next year for children aged 13 to 15, was approved by an education commission...
...Mickey Mouse summit? Maybe in Tomorrowland. In the real world, Pyongyang-watchers from Seoul to Washington were left wondering, as is usually the case with North Korean affairs, what's up. Since North Korean passport holders?even children of the country's leader?aren't welcome in most of the world, it's not unusual for well-connected North Koreans to travel with false papers. Kim, in fact, is believed to have traveled incognito to Japan on at least two other occasions...
...Jong Il told a visiting E.U. delegation that he will maintain a ban on missile tests until 2003 and would agree to a second summit with South Korea. The commitments were announced by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, the first Western leader to visit North Korea. In Seoul, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung praised the E.U. delegation for "playing the role of a messenger of peace...
...Jung Soo Bong, 76, is Jung's grandmother. As a young woman, she lived in Seoul during the Japanese occupation. She doesn't like to talk about it much. Besides, she says, "everybody went through it." But probe a little and the bitter feelings aren't too far below the surface. Right after she got married at the age of 21, the Japanese came and press-ganged her husband into the military. She was separated from him for over a year and didn't see him again until after Japan's defeat in 1945. "I try not to harbor bitter...