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...Empty Streets We boarded eight buses for an approximately 15-mile (25 km) journey into town, and some of the North Korea I'd read about, and talked to diplomats and refugees and defectors about, started to become real. In the late-afternoon gloom, we passed apartment buildings and office buildings, row after row, that were unlit. Outside town, people either trudged along the side of the road or rode bikes - many stopping to stare at our convoy. And every kilometer or so, there stood in the middle of the road a female traffic cop. Each wore an aqua-blue...
...That's the reality of how the North Korean government operates. About a year and a half ago, at the behest of another acquaintance who helps aid refugees, I sat in a small apartment outside the town of Yanjie in northeast China. There sat two people - two among thousands - who had fled Kim Jong Il's North Korea in recent years. The mother of one young woman, Park Dae, had been taken to a political prison, gotten ill and died about three years ago, she said. Another, a young man, said he was simply tired of the poverty he faced...
...dark-clad crowd at a cemetery in the Serbian town of Novi Sad listened respectfully to the tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed...
...Serbia and Kosovo have taken to the streets. They have thrown grenades at the United Nations courthouse in northern Kosovo, destroyed two customs posts, and clashed with ethnic Albanian police. Student demonstrators have rallied daily along the Ibar River that divides Serb from Albanian areas in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure to rebel against "the formation of another Albanian state," he told a Serbian crowd in northern Kosovo, is "tantamount to treason...
...government commissioners were in town to hear experts and representatives of cable companies like Comcast discuss the role that corporations should be allowed to have in regulating consumers’ Internet...