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Seoul's Power Play
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In North Korea, bright floodlights shine all night on the monuments to Kim Jong Il and his family. But the rest of the energy-starved country is lucky to get a few hours of juice a day. So when South Korean Minister of Unification Chung Dong Young traveled to Pyongyang last month to outline a secret offer of massive energy aid, he seemed to have caught the Dear Leader's attention. If Kim scraps his nuclear weapons program, Chung told him, South Korea will provide 2 million kilowatts of electricity each year, nearly doubling the North's power supply. Making details of the plan...