Word: defectors
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...Those lighter sentences mean more and more students have started to defy the long-standing ban and get exposed to life outside the North's borders. One defector says that when students are caught, they buy cigarettes for police officers to escape labor sentences, and sometimes even give officers the bootleg to watch themselves. "I used to believe strongly what the government told us - that foreign films are crazy and violent. We used to be terrified of watching South Korean dramas," says one North Korean university student in Seoul, who remains sympathetic to the regime. "But I've opened...
...Military defector Aung Lynn Htut is unconvinced. He warns that his former commander will do anything to discredit Suu Kyi, a longtime supporter of Western sanctions. Than Shwe met Webb as part of a campaign to portray the Nobel laureate as "the enemy of the Burmese people [who] is too stubborn to lift sanctions," he says. But even Suu Kyi's pro-sanctions stance is no longer a given. U.S. engagement was "a good thing," she admitted recently through a spokesman for her National League for Democracy party...
...never thought that Kim Jong Il was human and thus mortal.' OH YEON-JONG, a North Korean defector, after American and South Korean officials confirmed that the ailing dictator had chosen his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to succeed...
Reports from defector groups are not always reliable. But following its latest test, the assumption that North Korea will be ultimately willing to negotiate away its nuclear program is under new scrutiny. North Korea's "ultimate goal now is to be a full nuclear state," says Baek Seung Joo, director of the Center for Security and Strategy at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. If that's true, containment (not bribery) will need to become the focus of the outside world's diplomacy with Pyongyang--starting in Washington...
...Reports from defector groups in Seoul are, to be sure, not always reliable. But the assumption that North Korea is ultimately willing to negotiate away its nuclear program will come under new scrutiny after today's test. Baek Seung-joo, director of the Security Strategy Research Center at the Korea Institute of Defense Analysis, acknowledges that North Korea appears to have advanced its nuclear program and that its "ultimate goal now is to be a full nuclear state." If that's true - and it's a big if - the outside world's diplomacy with Pyongyang will need to change, starting...