COVER STORY
Northern Exposure
North Korea is a monolithic black box to the rest of the world, but stress cracks can be seen in the aspiring nuclear power

Twilight Time for the Sunshine Policy
Will President Kim Dae Jung's signature engagement strategy, the "Sunshine Policy," be displaced by a "Nuclear Winter Policy"?


Is North Korea really opening up, or just bluffing in exchange for much-needed aid?

Opening Up
Bluffing
Don't Know


Look Who's Got The Bomb
Confronted by the U.S., North Korea brazenly admits it's building nukes. Now what does President Bush do? (October 28, 2002)

The Hermit Kingdom's Bizarre SAR
Having failed to build a communist utopia, North Korea plans to create a capitalist one with its own elected officials and a wall to keep out the riffraff (October 7, 2002)

Accounted for, at Last
North Korea admits it abducted Japanese citizens to help train its spies and says some are still alive (September 30, 2002)



FROM THE NOV 4, 2002 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED MONDAY, OCT 28, 2002
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