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...Dandong (pop. 2.4 million) is anything but a normal Chinese city--and why it's a crucial front in the world's struggle to contain a nuclear North Korea. A few hundred yards across the river lie the dilapidated low-rise buildings of the North Korean city of Sinuiju, many of which seem deserted, their window frames empty of glass, their doors agape. A few peasants dressed in blue jackets and trousers can be seen laboring in the fields in front of the town, but otherwise an eerie stillness pervades. As evening advances, only a few feeble lights come...
...once ranked as China's second-richest man; to 18 years in prison for crimes including bribery and fraud; in Shenyang, China. Yang became wealthy raising flowers, before expanding into real estate. In 2002, he was selected to head a North Korean Special Administrative Region in the city of Sinuiju, apparently without Beijing's prior consent. He was arrested shortly afterward...
...Given Yang's newfound notoriety, he fits the bill. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il selected the 39-year-old entrepreneur to spearhead an experiment in social and economic engineering in the town of Sinuiju on the border with China. Yang was to be Chief Executive of a free-trade zone with its own laws and elections. The project is meant to lure industry to the destitute communist country, helping it join the modern world and possibly get off U.S. President George W. Bush's hit list. China's close ties to North Korea make Yang's predicament...
...stake to 49%. Lee Jong-suk, a China watcher at Sejong Institute, a Seoul think tank, says Beijing may have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project office, insists everything "is still proceeding as planned." But it's a fair bet that the flower king's brief reign as chief of North Korea's special economic zone is coming...
...self-imposed diplomatic isolation. But Kelly warned that relations with Washington could not improve unless there was clear evidence that North Korea is committed to reform. Meanwhile in Shenyang, north China, authorities detained Yang Bin, the Chinese-born tycoon who runs the North Korean free-trade zone of Sinuiju. Police questioned Yang about tax evasion as well as real estate and stock fraud. MEANWHILE In The Drink Albania's capital, Tirana, thought it had escaped Europe's summer floods. But a drunk dam worker changed that. Angry at being forbidden to drink on the job, the unnamed worker opened...