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...always, it is unclear whether the North is bluffing. But Pyongyang's delegates to the talks had never been in a convivial mood. According to an American diplomat at the sessions, North Korea's representative, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, privately told the U.S.'s top negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the U.S. had left the North no choice but to declare itself a nuclear power--and that Pyongyang would soon conduct a nuclear test. The next day Kelly recounted what he had been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly...
...Despite admonitions to behave, North Korea lobbed a cherry bomb on the very first day of negotiations. According to an American diplomat who participated in the sessions, North Korea's representative at the talks, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, privately told the U.S.'s top negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the circumstances left the North "no choice" but to declare itself a nuclear power?and to prove the claim by conducting a nuclear test. Alarming as this sounds, it's standard operating procedure for North Korea, which has calculatedly tried to frighten the international community into...
...conclusion in the World Travel Organization's annual report receives a resounding endorsement from executives on the ground: "Tourists shifted their travel habits during this period of time; they chose closer and less-expensive destinations." Philip Yong, a leading tour operator in Sarawak, says, "If it weren't for domestic travelers from peninsular Malaysia, [hotel occupancy] would be in single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words...
...Huang Yong, who also works in the Beijing bureau, visited another hospital and discovered more than 100 SARS patients who weren't supposed to be there. Two weeks ago, he and Jakes reported that just before a delegation from the World Health Organization arrived at yet another hospital, 31 coughing staff members who had caught SARS from patients had been loaded into ambulances and driven around until the inspectors left (TIME, April 28). Hannah Beech, our Shanghai bureau chief, discovered evidence of how the disease was spreading through the interior of China, when she overheard meetings at which hospital staff...
...this work has been done under very trying conditions, with our journalists at risk both reporting the story and working and living in Hong Kong. Karl was so concerned about how much time Huang Yong was spending in hospitals that he quarantined him for eight days. Some staff members have sent their families abroad for a few weeks so they at least get a break from the atmosphere of fear...