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Cover Story 12/29/03
Nuclear Bombast
Is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il ready to trade away his growing nuclear arsenal, or is he just playing for time?

By Thomas Omestad
The "Dear Leader" was furious. Someone had used his ashtray in an elevator reserved exclusively for the future ruler of North Korea. The offender was a bodyguard Kim had known since boyhood--but no matter. The guard and his family were hauled off to North Korea's gulag, where he died after a pummeling by fellow prisoners.
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Korean PoW home from 50 years of captivity
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
(Filed: 30/12/2003)


A South Korean held as a prisoner of war in North Korea for half a century has escaped and been reunited with his family after a secret deal between the governments in Seoul and Beijing.
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Nordkorea schlägt gegenüber USA harte Töne an

Seoul (AFP)

Nordkorea hat scharfe Maßnahmen für den Fall angekündigt, dass die USA an ihrer harten Linie gegenüber Pjöngjang festhalten. Zugleich erklärte sich die nordkoreanische Führung in ihrer Neujahrsbotschaft zu einer friedlichen Beilegung der Atomkrise bereit. Wegen Washingtons "extrem feindlicher Politik" gegenüber Pjöngjang sei die Lage auf der koreanischen Halbinsel derzeit Besorgnis erregend, hieß es in der in drei Parteizeitungen veröffentlichten Erklärung. Die Streitkräfte werden aufgefordert, zur "Stärkung der anti-imperialistischen Front" die "größten Anstrengungen" zu unternehmen.
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