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...generate electricity for the impoverished country. In fact, it was pursuit of that agreement that set the precedent for Clinton's current trip: at a moment when it seemed as if a deal might be falling apart, Clinton dispatched former President Jimmy Carter to meet with Kim Il Sung, father of Kim Jong Il. (See pictures of North Korea's leader...
...with the U.S. During the Bush years, Washington never agreed to a formal bilateral dialogue. But the North has always wanted to sideline the South Korean government in Seoul, with whom it has never signed a peace treaty, as well as the Japanese government, which regime founder Kim Il Sung fought to dislodge as occupier of the Korean peninsula. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...officials caution. "It's very possible that we're looking at the prospect of North Korea without Kim Jong Il," a diplomatic source told TIME. "If he's as sick as some reports indicate, we're looking at a very uncertain future." Intelligence reports earlier this year spotlighted Chang Sung Taek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law, as the likely "regent" in a post-Kim world, riding herd over Kim Jong Un, the 20-something who is likely to be the Dear Leader's successor. But sources say there is now increasing uncertainty as to how much authority Chang...
...first things to happen after the Taliban was chased out of Kabul was that the doors of the Afghan capital's Bollywood cinemas were flung open to the public. The language of cosmic love that animates Bollywood music and enchants millions of Muslims around the world, even if sung and acted out by non-Muslims, is a direct legacy of centuries of Sufi devotional poetry. At Sufism's core, suggests Oxford University's Devji, is an embrace of the world. "It allows you to identify beyond your mosque and village to something that can be both Islamic and secular...
...timing of the attacks is one: they coincided with the anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder and Kim's dad, Kim Il Sung, an occasion you might reasonably expect the regime to celebrate with some long-distance shenanigans. And the regime is already embroiled in conflict with the U.S. over nukes and missiles; a hack attack would be just one more inflammatory act by a country that specializes in inflammatory actions...