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...restaurant upstairs. tel: (60-3) 2697 1180 La Bodega: Yearning for tapas and fat Monte Cristo cigars? Then head to this relaxed venue, perhaps the most chilled-out bar in the Changkat Bukit Bintang area. French windows let in a suitably sultry breeze. tel: (60-3) 2142 6368 Sao Nam: One of the most popular restaurants on the Tengkat Tong Shin row, Sao Nam serves up southern Vietnamese cuisine with a contemporary twist. Diners can choose the alfresco area on ground level, or troop to the dining room upstairs, scattered with retro Indo-Chinese furniture...
...reason to believe North Korea's explanation is its willingness to show outsiders the area, says Baek Nam Soon, a North Korea expert at the Sejong Institute in Seoul. "If you see a guy named North Korea coming out of a store, you think he must have stolen something," says Baek. "They didn't want that to happen again." In any event, the International Atomic Energy Agency was directing more of its concern last week toward Iran, which was ordered to stop working on uranium enrichment, and South Korea, which admitted conducting nuclear experiments and other possible violations...
...Jong Chol, in his early 20s, is the strongest contender to succeed his father, who himself inherited the job of paramount leader?although her youngest son, Kim Jong Woon, is rumored to be his father's favorite. The only other known contender is 33-year-old Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Il's son by another union, but he's believed to have been in the doghouse since 2001 when he was caught trying to visit Disneyland by entering Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport. The question now is whether Ko's death might dent her children's succession...
...RESIGNED. SHIM KI NAM, 51, chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party, following allegations that his father was a collaborator during Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula; in Seoul. Shin had denied rumors about his father's past until two men told local media last week that the elder Shin, who is deceased, had tortured them when he was a policeman. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun had earlier said he would establish a commission to probe the sensitive period of Japan's colonial rule...
...level talks with Seoul, accusing it of kidnapping the 468 North Korean defectors who arrived in the South last week via Vietnam. Another round of multilateral talks on the North's nuclear program is due to start in September, but the chances of success seem slimmer than ever, says Nam Ju Hong, an expert on international relations at South Korea's Kyonggi University. "North Korea is moving away from solving the nuclear crisis," he says. "This is going to take a long time." Time that the North might use to develop more dependable nuclear weaponry...