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...Group, a nongovernmental organization that studies security issues. "But he is under pressure to navigate the regime through some very rough waters." One thing is for sure: for every cautious assessment such as that, the next few months will see just as many wild rumors of events in the Hermit Kingdom...
...mention his roles in a number of 1980s propaganda films as a Yankee imperialist devil-seemed to suggest that he was. Or was he kidnapped by North Korean agents and brainwashed, as some family members and supporters claimed? Was he a privileged and pampered ward of the Hermit Kingdom, a trophy apostate to America's wicked capitalist ways? Or was he forced to suffer the same deprivation, hunger and paranoia visited upon almost every other resident of one of the world's harshest, most despotic regimes...
...outside world. When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in October 2002, Kim confirmed Japan's long-held conviction that North Korea had engaged in a systematic program of kidnapping Japanese citizens and pressing them into service as teachers at the Hermit Kingdom's spy schools. The abductees returned to Japan for a 10-day visit that wound up being permanent after they declined to return, but Jenkins had stayed behind in the North with his two daughters. In the past two years, Soga has become a heroine in Japan. When Koizumi returned...
Indeed, most Islamic experts condemn the hostage murders for the same reason that--anti-American sentiment aside--they condemned the Sept. 11 attacks: the Prophet's prohibition on killing noncombatants, or, as he put it, "a woman or a child, or a hermit, a farmer plowing his field, [or] a person who is not carrying a weapon against you." Says Ingrid Mattson, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America: "Other than from the spokesmen for these different terrorist groups, everything I've heard is a complete rejection" of the beheadings. Scholars at Cairo's venerable al-Azhar seminary...
...Their output is seldom sold or shown abroad. But "The World According to Kim Jong Il," an exhibition that will run at Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum until Aug. 29, offers a rare and fascinating look at the captive artists' spin on life in the Hermit Kingdom. The 285 works on display are relatively recent, but they might easily have come from Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. The North Korean art clock seems to have stopped circa 1930-50, and the impression that emerges from the exhibition is of a remote, sad and strangely poignant land...