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...defectors, masterminding a failed 1983 hit in Rangoon on South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan and the bombing of a South Korean jetliner that killed 115 people. Hwang Jang Yop, once Pyongyang's chief propagandist and the most senior North Korean official to defect, says Kim terrorizes his own countrymen as well. Hwang depicts Kim as touchy, paranoid and vindictive and says he dispatches those who cross him to grim concentration camps...
...look no further than their compatriots Liu Yung-yang and Yang Wan, whose 85-year union makes them the world's longest-married couple. Their granddaughter-in-law says, "(They) hardly had a quarrel with each other, keeping a very intimate relationship." Whatever their secret, too few of their countrymen...
...Washington pleading for assistance for his four kids and his ailing wife. A spokesman for Princess Haifa says "she had no knowledge that funds she gave away for charity may have been passed on to others." It's quite common for Saudi royals to give away large sums to countrymen who ask. What's more, agents haven't turned up evidence that Bassnan knew about the 9/11 plot, and the FBI has concluded that Bayoumi was not a witting accomplice...
...televised question-and-answer session with college students last week, the hawkish conservative told the audience he is "ready to meet" with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation. That's an unexpected disclosure from a politician who has been advocating that his countrymen take a tough stand against the nuclear ambitions of their northern neighbor. Lee isn't going soft on North Korea. "It's a show," says Lee Tae Jun, author of a critical book on the candidate, "an attempt at camouflage to boost his votes at the last minute...
...Hwang has made the show a richer, more nuanced exploration of the immigrant experience. One new character, a laborer who wants to take Mei-Li back to Hong Kong ("They try so hard to fit in," he says of his assimilation-minded countrymen, "they don't even know who they are"), reminds us that there were many left out of the American Dream. Hwang is more respectful of the old characters too: the sexy nightclub singer Linda Low (Sandra Allen) was a conniving man eater in the old show; now she's a warm, sisterly and surprisingly full-blooded character...