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...more pleasant surprises about Pyongyang is that the North Korean capital - surely the most isolated capital city on earth - has a handful of bookshops for foreigners. Less surprisingly, most of the books have been written by either Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader and founder of North Korea, or his son the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Most are stern instruction manuals on how to be a better communist. There are also a number of guides and glossy souvenir books, more than enough for a place than receives less foreign visitors in a year than the Louvre does...
...easy dealing with liars. Or maniacs. And Kim Jong Il is a lying maniac--a bizarro fascist who breaks his promises and starves his people. It would be nice if we could just denounce him, isolate him, ignore...
...range missile and has said it has no intention of ever rejoining the so-called six-party talks - the Bush Administration's ultimately futile attempt to get the North to, in effect, re-enact the Agreed Framework of the Clinton era. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong Il...
Shortly after former President Bill Clinton finished having dinner with Kim Jong Il on Aug. 4 in Pyongyang, North Korean's state-run news agency issued a release saying that the two men had met and that Clinton had brought a message to the North Korean leader from President Barack Obama...
...didn't play hearts (Clinton's favorite card game) for three hours. Matters of substance, in some detail, came up, and even before Clinton can be debriefed, the outside world has learned at least a couple of things from the visit. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong Il...