— The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1997
orth Korean ambassador flees Egypt for asylum in U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. North
Korea's ambassador to Egypt
defected to the United States,
apparently the highest-ranked
diplomat from the secretive com
munist Asian country to take
refuge here. The prize could be
valuable information on North
Korean missiles.
Chang Sung Gil defected along
with his brother Chang Sung Ho, a
diplomat on a trade mission to
AP Photo Paris, the State Department
announced yesterday. Both were
North Korean Ambassador to Egypt Chang Sung Gil was granted granted asylum, and their families
political asylum by the United States after recently defecting here. The defected with them, said depart-
U.S. State Department announced the defection yesterday. ment spokesman James P. Rubin.
Liquor board, city team up to prevent liquor store theft
By STEVE FARR
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA Nancy Huggins was
glad to hear that police may be stopping by
the liquor store she runs in West Philadel
phia. She wished they could stay longer.
"I want somebody here with me," Ms.
Huggins said yesterday. "If he could sit on
my lap I'd be happy."
Ms. Huggins' store is one of 12 state-run
Wine and Spirits Shoppes robbed in
Philadelphia so far this year. Five have
been robbed twice.
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In response, the Pennsylvania Liquor
Control Board has contracted with the city
to pay uniformed, off-duty officers over
time wages to patrol vulnerable liquor
stores and drop in for security checks.
"This is an intolerable situation," board
Chairman John E. Jones 111 said at a news
conference in Ms. Huggins' Market Street
store. "We are convinced that if we don't
do this, somebody's going to get hurt."
Mayor Edward G. Rendell declined to
say how many officers would be involved
or where and when they will be working.
"That's up to the people who commit
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crimes to figure out," he said. But Jones
said the liquor board will spend "hundreds
of thousands of dollars" on the program,
which began Monday night.
Nobody was hurt Aug. 16 when armed
robbers burst into Ms. Huggins' store,
faced down the lone, unarmed guard and
made off with hundreds of dollars.
A manager quit afterward, said Ms
Huggins, who was on vacation at the time
"They took his wallet."
William Kirby, 64, had that Saturday off Robbers looking for a big score from
and didn't quit, although he said he might her liquor store are likely to be disappoint
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The ambassador had, at a mini
mum, a bird's eye view of North
Korean missile transactions in the
Middle East.
Iran received most of the tech
nology, a source of concern for the
United States and Israel, a senior
U.S. official said yesterday.
North Korea also sent technology
to Syria and Egypt and is a major
supplier in other areas of the
world, said officials who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Today marks a third round of
U.S. negotiations with North Korea
to try to curb its missile sales and a
buildup. The Clinton administra
tion was deciding whether to sus
pend trade with an Egyptian com
pany for dealing with North Korea,
He was in the store when it was robbed a
few years ago. He doesn't remember how
many bandits there were.
"I couldn't even tell you, i was so
scared," Kirby said. "My wife got on me
because I came to work the next day."
Gunmen are just another job hazard for
Ms. Huggins, 49, who took over the store in
November. In her 25 years with the state
system, she's been present at five rob
beries.
one of the officials claimed
Rubin, the State Department
spokesman, gave few details on the
defections and asylum.
"Cases of this nature are very
sensitive to concerns involving the
people, and their interests are
always very sensitive," he said.
Chang Sung Gil left his post in
Cairo and almost simultaneously
his brother left his assignment
with a North Korean trade mission
in Paris.
Egyptian government sources
said in Cairo that Chang was flown
out on Monday using a false name
and American travel document.
His defection was the first by a
senior diplomat from the commu
nist state.
At the Pentagon, Navy Capt.
Michael Doubleday declined to
answer whether the U.S. military
had provided any assistance to the
defectors, such as providing trans
portation to the United States.
According to U.S. and South
Korean officials, North Korea can
produce 150 Soviet-designed Scud
missiles a year and has sold 370 to
Arab countries.
Three days of talks on North
Korea's spread of nuclear technolo
gy were to open this morning at the
U.S. mission to the United Nations
in New York.
"We don't believe this will have
any effect on the missile talks,"
Rubin said, nor on preliminary
peace talks planned next month.
be opened with a key from the bank.
And if they're caught, the liquor control
board promises no mercy. Pennsylvania's
minimum sentence for armed robbery is
five years in prison.
Outside of Philadelphia, only two of the
state's 655 Wine and Spirits Shoppes have
been robbed this year, both in Chester
County.
The liquor board has tightened security
in Philadelphia before. Two years ago, the
city's 85 state stores added surveillance
cameras, panic buttons and drop safes.
Last year, police patrols were stepped up
at a handful of West Philadelphia stores.
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