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To: NickSE who wrote (208)	3/3/2003 8:28:41 PM
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Elite North Korean bides his time in China msnbc.com Story of refugee-spy reveals cracks in Pyongyang’s ranks BEIJING, March 3 — Wearing a dark-green tie and gray suit and displaying a polished manner, Kim Dong San exudes the confident air of a businessman. But Kim’s appearance is carefully calculated to cover reality. Over a lunch of steaming beef-and-mutton stew recently, he described his hand-to-mouth existence as a garbage collector in Beijing, facing a constant risk of arrest for illegal migration — a far cry from his previous incarnation as a privileged operative of North Korea’s powerful intelligence apparatus. Kim also revealed his dream: to defect to the United States someday. cont'd...