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...process was in his new book, Life in the Valley of Death. (Watch Alan Rabinowitz talk about the Hukawng Valley reserve, and the changing nature of wildlife conservation, on the new video Greencast.) First there was the forbidding Hukawng Valley itself, a remote chunk of mountainous jungle on the border with India, dubbed the "Valley of Death" by British refugees fleeing the Japanese advance into Burma during World War II. When Rabinowitz hiked deep into the Hukawng in 1999 - braving carnivorous leeches, among other trials - he was the first scientist to visit the area since the early 20th century. Tigers...
...cooperation between the two Koreas. In mid-December, a direct rail link opened between Seoul and the Kaesong Industrial Complex across the DMZ in the North, and work continues on a variety of other infrastructure projects, including extending the rail line all the way to the North's border with China. Not even South Korea's newly elected President Lee Myung Bak, a political hard-liner when it comes to dealing with Pyongyang, seems willing to break the increasingly warm embrace. "If North Korea opens up, and proceeds to dismantle its nuclear program, the South Korean government can increase...
...other companies plan to set up plants there when a second phase opens in early 2010. A rush is anticipated in part because, at the October summit between Roh and Kim, the North agreed to key improvements in how Kaesong operates, including swifter customs clearance for goods crossing its border, and better computer and cell-phone communications connections between Seoul and Kaesong factories. The moves were greeted by businessmen as "a signal that [North Korean leaders] really want more investment, and are willing to be a bit flexible," says the Kaesong Industrial Council...
...fruit. On Dec. 11 a regular rail-freight service was inaugurated between Seoul and Kaesong, punching a symbolic hole in the heavily fortified DMZ that divides the countries. Work is also underway to repair a rail line linking Kaesong with the North Korean city of Sinuiju on the Chinese border - promising to give South Korean companies an overland transport route to the booming mainland. The South has also promised to help rebuild the main highway from Kaesong to Pyongyang. Given that there is already an expressway that runs from Seoul to the DMZ, optimists such as Lee Im Dong...
...idea floated was to build a man-made island to house factories in the West Sea. But Lee Myung Bak's transition team has all but ruled out any quick movement on a West Sea project, mainly because the geopolitics of the region are still deeply contentious. The maritime border between the two countries is contested - the North and South Korean navies have skirmished several times in the region, most recently in 2002 - and enmity flared anew last month when naval attachés from the two sides almost got into a fistfight during initial discussions about the proposed...