History of Harm

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The Coming Age of Arthritis
June 16, 2003 Issue
 

ASIA
 Saving Japan: The Class of '89
 Karachi: Asia's Danger City
 S. Korea: Spy Service Reform
 Burma: The Junta Turns Deadly


HEALTH
 China: Doctors' Ethical Dilemma


ARTS
 Movies: Enter The Animatrix
 Movies: HK's Truth or Dare
 Books: Clichés of Thailand


NOTEBOOK
 Pakistan: Shari'a Law Threat
 S. Korea: Leaving the DMZ
 China: Crackdown on Tycoons
 Bangladesh: Dirty Bomb Danger
 India: Rampaging Elephants
 Milestones
 Verbatim


TRAVEL
 Thailand: Umphang's Bloody Past


CNN.com: Top Headlines
1973 Scholar Tsche Chong Kil is found dead at NIS (then called the Korean Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters. Agents say he jumped from a seventh-floor window after confessing to spying for North Korea

1979 Agency chief Kim Chae Gyu, right, assassinates South Korean President Park Chung Hee and the chief of the Presidential Security Force, Cha Chi Chol

1987 NIS agents torture and kill student activist Park Chong Chol. An autopsy reveals his windpipe was smashed on the edge of a bathtub

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