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...Last week, South Korea confessed to the 1982 plutonium experiment just a week after admitting its scientists had enriched a small amount of uranium in 2000 at a different facility in the city of Taejon, 120 km south of Seoul. The government went into strenuous spin mode, especially when accused of covering up the nuclear fiddling, a charge that was "groundless and unsubstantiated," according to the Foreign Ministry. But official explanations for how the nuclear materials got produced became more threadbare through the week. The uranium experiment in 2000 was supposedly carried out by a small group of very junior...
...when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock of hot air balloons carrying radios toward North Korea. A few days later, he led a peaceful anti-Kim Jong Il protest outside a press center in Taejon and was assaulted by North Korean reporters. President Roh quickly apologized for Dr. Vollertsen’s activities...
Yuri Geller claims he can bend spoons simply by using his brain. In the South Korean city of Taejon, people are learning a very similar trick - though they need a computer between themselves and the cutlery. Here's how the experimental software works. You don an electrode-studded cap that monitors brain waves and sends data to a computer that displays a virtual spoon. Different types of mental activity produce distinct signals in the brain, and the computer can discern, in a crude way, what's going on inside your head. To make the spoon bend, you have to relax...
What's going on in Taejon, at the Korea Research Institute, is a very basic example of what could be the most interactive technology of the future: brain-computer interfaces. Early computers were controlled by cardboard punch cards; the first PCs demanded typed DOS commands; the mouse gave us a graphic interface. Will we one day be able to enter the world of computing with no external mechanical intermediary whatsoever - in other words, just by thinking? Researchers around the globe are working on the problem. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, for example, has developed the Adaptive Brain...
...South Gate, and I inched my jeep through it, fighting back an almost uncontrollable urge to jump out and hide somewhere. But at a crossroads, the others were waiting, and we pushed on into open country, along the rough gravel road snaking between paddy fields. Late that day, near Taejon, some 90 miles below Seoul, we spotted a jeep approaching. Perched in the back was the South Korean Defense Minister; Korea's autocratic old President, Syngman Rhee, could not be too far away...