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More than 11,000 heads of state, business leaders, technology experts, development gurus and do-gooders have gathered this week in Tunisia for a UN-sponsored meeting dubbed the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The second phase of a two-part meeting that began in Geneva just under two years ago, the Tunisia conference has some heady aims. The most controversial issue going into the summit was who should control the Internet, which is currently managed by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit company set up by the U.S. Department...
...American contingent's three days in South Korea, centered around an annual Asia-Pacific economic summit, are underscoring differences between the allies, at a time when Bush is anxious to portray unity in confronting Roh's nuclear neighbor, North Korea. Roh, given a choice between dissembling or dissing Bush when asked if his country's approach of giving assistance to North Korea puts him at odds with the United States, replied, "Next," and motioned for a question from KBS [a Korean broadcasting network]." Quizzed about the same issue aboard Air Force One on the way to South Korea, Bush national...
...imperial capital of Kyoto-one of the few cities left where geishas, ancient temples and rickshaws abound-was a way for Bush to draft off of Koizumi's triumph. It was also an opportunity to touch down on friendly turf before plunging into the chaos of an international economic summit in Busan, South Korea, a honeymooners' paradise now on lockdown by police massing on every downtown corner with riot shields and prods that look like spears. ?Prime Minister Koizumi is one of my best friends in the international community,? Bush said as the two made their third appearance before cameras...
...Asia these days, the U.S. needs all the help it can get. Bush will leave Japan for the annual APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea. There, though his hosts will doubtless make the ritual declarations about the solidity of their own alliance with the U.S., it is an open secret that Washington and the government of Roh Moo Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something...
...last month and of 2002. But many militants are still at large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand in 2003 and is in U.S. custody.) As J.I.'s chief strategist, and as a charismatic recruiter, Nurdin is more dangerous than Azahari, says Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more...