Word: yonge
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...Jong Il, the Dear Leader, is of course more experienced at emulating Stalin's gulags than Adam Smith's capitalism. Yet Kim Yong Sul, North Korea's vice-minister for foreign trade, called the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region "a new historical miracle" wrought by Kim Jong Il "in the hope of achieving prosperity for Korea." Not so long ago, U.S. President George W. Bush branded North Korea a member of the "Axis of Evil," along with Iraq and Iran. But the xenophobic Kim now seems increasingly frantic to mend relations with the outside world and leapfrog his poverty-stricken people...
...model farm half an hour's drive northwest of Pyongyang, we were told about America's sins against North Korea. Standing in the doorway of the simple two-room home where she has lived for decades, Ri Yong Sun, 65, recalled how U.S. bombing during the Korean War destroyed fields and homes here. Ri wanted the Americans to apologize. The U.S., along with Japan, is the biggest donor of food aid to North Korea, yet it remains the enemy, viewed as the unrepentant instigator of the Korean War. Walking along the banks of the Taedong, I stopped to chat with...
...occurred at the height of the crab season. Last week, the South Korean navy changed the rules of engagement, allowing it to react more quickly when they face threats from North Korean vessels. But the dispute over who owns the waters around the Golden Sea remains unchanged. Says Dong Yong Seung, chief of North Korean Research at Samsung Research Institute: "There is always the possibility of another clash...
...prison for the illegal possession of explosives; in General Santos City, Philippines. SENTENCED. THOMAS CRANDALL, 47, Roman Catholic priest, to four years and three months in prison by order of a federal justice for dealing drugs from his Florida rectory and New Orleans condominium; in Pensacola, Florida. SENTENCED. LIU YONG, 31, former legislator in the northeastern Chinese industrial hub of Shenyang, to death by order of a provincial court; in Tieling. Liu was convicted for property damage, bribery, illegal business, possession of guns and obstruction of justice in a corruption scandal...
Under the leadership of Yun Jong Yong, an avid disciple of American management gurus like Jack Welch, the electronics company laid off a third of its work force, or about 30,000 people, slashed costs and dropped sideline businesses like pagers and electric coffeepots. Yun recruited top managers and engineers from the U.S. Back in Seoul, recruits were put through a four-week boot camp in which they were awakened before 6 a.m. every day to martial anthems extolling the virtues of being a Samsung man. Marathon mountain hikes were part of the drill...