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By GORDON G. CHANG From today's Wall Street Journal Asia. At this moment the Kang Nam, a North Korea tramp freighter, is on the high seas tailed by a team of American destroyers and submarines and watched by reconnaissance satellites and aircraft. On board, its cargo could be plutonium pellets, missile parts or semi-ripe melons. In any event, Washington wants to know what is in the rusty ship's hold. Why the interest in this particular vessel? The Kang Nam is a "repeat offender" and known to carry "proliferation materials." As an unnamed American official told Fox News this month, "This...

Here is the link to the bizarre and eery communist North Korean TV News yesterday, showing the 'festivities' in Pyongyang on the 50th Anniversary of the Armistace of the Korean War.The scenes of mass idolotry at the foot of a huge golden statute of deceased N. Korean leader Kim Il-Sung is most digusting and disheartening.Real Audio stream, works best if you have broadband. Copy and Paste. It will first say "Document not found" but after loading, the 1 minute color video will come up. URL:http://mediaframe.yahoo.com/launch?p=news&a=0,30&provider=ap_av&.test=1&f=53746348&lid=rnv-56-s.4906897,rnv-128-s.4906897,rnv-200-s.4906897,rnv-300-s.4906897,wmv-50-s.4906898,wmv-100-s.4906899,wmv-300-s.4906900,&t=AudioVideo - AP - N. Korea Marks 50th Anniversary of Korean War Armistice &bw=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=979&dw=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030727/163/4t3p5.html