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...North Korea is so sealed off from the rest of the world that the wrong end is all they've got. The North Korean government - in the person of 80-year-old Kim Yong Nam, ostensibly Kim's second in command - said on Sept. 10 that there was "no problem" with the Dear Leader. Still, a senior South Korean intelligence analyst told TIME that "something strange has clearly happened. We know Kim Jong Il has been out of sight for a few weeks, and we know physicians from outside North Korea have gone to Pyongyang. But that...
...Even members of S.B.Y.'s inner circle are under scrutiny: two of his Cabinet members are being investigated for allegedly receiving payoffs, while another was sacked in May because of suspected links to another graft scandal. Indonesia is still deeply corrupt. But the perception that S.B.Y. is taking the problem seriously is boosting business confidence. From January to May this year, foreign direct investment in Indonesia grew by 164% year on year, to $9.78 billion...
...news is that North Korea is again struggling with food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute near Seoul. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...
...likelihood that they are seeking it for the wrong reasons to the impact it may have on their ability to maintain healthy future relationships. But is it the sex we're worried about or the sexiness? Is it what they do or how they look? And whose problem is this anyway...
...will get the development money that all of Washington now seems keen to send east? Christine Fair, a Pakistan expert with the Rand Corp. in Washington, argues that without a reformer in charge in Islamabad, programs such as Biden-Lugar will be "throwing good money after bad." The problems, she says, are systemic. Improving training for police officers won't help until their wages are boosted to make them less vulnerable to bribes--but that would require reforming police pay, which in turn would call for extensive civil-service reform. "That's the problem with Pakistan," says Fair...