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In the autumn of 1944, when I was 16 years old, my friend, Kim Punsun, and I were
collecting shellfish at the riverside when we noticed an elderly man and a Japanese man
looking down at us form the hillside......
A few days later, Punsun knocked on my window early in the morning,
and whispered to me to follow her quietly. I tip-toed out of the house after her.

A crime to relate to Korean sex prostitution and sex in the evidence holds most of world it.

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Last week, the US Board on Geographic Names changed its designation of the island from South Korean to non-designated sovereignty. South Korea strongly protested the decision.

On Wednesday, the Asian affairs chief of the National Security Council Dennis Wilder said President George W Bush ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to look into the matter after being contacted by the South Korean government. Bush is visiting South Korea next week.

He said the decision was then made that the board's database will go back to referring to the island as South Korean.

Wilder said he regrets that last week's change in designation was perceived by South Koreans as some sort of change in the US policy.

He said the US remains neutral on the dispute, and that Japan and South Korea should work diplomatically to resolve the issue.

The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires anyone making an online comment about next month's state election to publish their real name and postcode.

The law will affect anyone posting a comment on an election story on The Advertiser's AdelaideNow website, as well as other Australian news sites.

It could also apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner.

Early in, early out

Jan 22nd 2009 | TOKYO
From The Economist print edition

An economy not hit directly by the financial storm is shrinking much faster than any other developed one

NO EVENT is seared upon Japan’s recent memory like the bursting of the country’s credit-inflated bubble in land and share prices after 1990. Yet, since the autumn, the speed with which Japan’s industrial output and exports have fallen almost certainly signals a slump of unprecedented severity, making Japan’s several post-bubble recessions look mild. In 1998, the worst year, the economy shrank by 2%. Most economists think it contracted by more than that in the last three months of 2008 alone. Goldman Sachs expects GDP to fall by 3.8% this year.

After six years of growth, the longest uninterrupted post-war run, Japan entered a new recession as early as the second quarter of 2008. But in the final couple of months of the year, what at first was a fairly gentle decline morphed into something far worse than that experienced even by countries at the centre of the credit storm (see chart).

"The basis for the court's decision is that Son Hui Kang and Ung Sik Pak were caught red-handed smuggling (that) amount of cigarettes into the country," the district court said in its verdict.

Ung Sik Pak, a North Korean diplomat stationed in Saint Petersburg, and his wife Son Hui Kang had tried to claim diplomatic immunity.

The court said the pair "did not have any diplomatic accreditation in Sweden" and that the Vienna convention did therefore not apply.

The pair was arrested upon their arrival in Stockholm after getting off a ferry from Helsinki with the smuggled cigarettes in their car on November 18 and has been held in custody since.

Sentences for cigarette smuggling in Sweden can range from six months to six years.

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