Word: begonia
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...attending a human-rights conference, but ended up spending seven years recording the testimony of escapees from the brutal Pyongyang regime. To be seen at October's Pusan International Film Festival and released in South Korea afterward, Kimjongilia - the title is taken from the name of a begonia cultivated in honor of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - is a harrowing night at the movies. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...With its grandiose monuments and rows of orderly apartment blocks, Pyongyang looks impervious to any threat. At a flower exhibition consisting exclusively of a red begonia named after the Dear Leader (the Kimjongilia) and a purple orchid named after his father (the Kimilsungia), North Korean visitors gush about the joy of living in a workers' paradise. "Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leader, life has improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted...