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...Olympics have been used before to solemnize a nation's vision of itself. The 1964 Games in Tokyo announced that a new powerhouse had been rebuilt from the ashes of war; the ones in Seoul, 24 years later, that a country of the developing world had achieved modernity. But the weight of expectation and symbolism carried by the 2008 Olympics is something else. For the billions watching around the world, the Olympics will be a time when a resurgent China shows its most confident face--and a moment that offers a unique opportunity to pressure the Chinese authorities on everything...
...South Korean government spokesman said Seoul does not know when the prisoners will be returned as it is expected to "take some time because of procedures...
...South Korean government spokesman said Tuesday that Taliban and Korean delegates have negotiated a deal to release the 19 Korean hostages, Christian charity workers, who have been held hostage in Afghanistan since July. According to the spokesman, Taliban militants agreed to release the hostages if Seoul would honor its promise to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by year's end - the South Koreans had said they would withdraw about 200 military personnel from Afghanistan before the kidnapping occurred - and end missionary work in the Islamic country. Seoul has also acceded to the Taliban's demand for removal of all Korean...
...peace treaty and prevented or repelled the 1975 North Vietnamese invasion that unified the country under communist rule. It's possible that if that kind of armistice had been negotiated, the former Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) would now be an economic powerhouse on on par with Seoul, instead of a still-poor, low-income but fast-growing economic center. This never-was South Vietnam might even have developed into a multi-party democracy as South Korea eventually...
Somatic nuclear transfer is the process Hwang and his team claimed to have successfully performed in early 2004. Late the following year, Hwang’s research was discredited, as were other claims that he had cloned a dog. The disgraced scientist was also fired from his post at Seoul National University...