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...Seoul sales office on and off for more than a year and rioted outside Daewoo's Bupyeong plant near Seoul. The unionists even dispatched a mission to GM's U.S. headquarters to persuade executives to back off. The anger persists. GM is "a multinational, imperialist company," declares Kim Il Seob, the workers' union president. The takeover "equals layoffs and unstable employment...
...Koreans during World War II. But as a Japanese, she feels a collective guilt for the sins of an older generation. "I'm sorry," she says suddenly, bowing in the direction of Wonsan's sweeping harbor, where a huge bronze statue of North Korea's late paramount ruler Kim Il Sung gazes down over parks, bland apartment blocks and children playing along the waterfront. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she repeats, bowing again and again...
...North Koreans view the outside world?particularly Japan and its other nemesis, America. I knew, though, that my perambulations would be tightly restricted by the North Korean government. Indeed, our itinerary proved to have been carefully pre-packaged. At the Grand People's Study House, a library overlooking Kim Il Sung Square with its giant portraits of Marx and Lenin, our North Korean hosts arranged a seminar on what life was like under the Japanese. In a lecture hall upstairs, the Japanese audience listened to Kwak Kum Nyo, 76, describe how she became a comfort woman at 16 when Japanese...
...North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung drew much of his legitimacy from his role in the guerrilla struggle against Japanese colonial rule, so these are the kinds of stories North Koreans grow up with. They help to explain why Pyongyang will demand billions in reparations as part of any normalization of relations with Japan?and why Koizumi is likely to exit North Korea with little to show for the visit unless he signals Tokyo's willingness...
...partner?"Look at his nose and then you understand," he says?is a former top international boxing matchmaker, once ranked as the world's third-best promoter by Ring Magazine. A stats junkie endowed with an encyclopedic sports memory, he moonlights as a columnist for the Italian dailies Il Tempo and La Gazzetta dello Sport. In 1993 he won the atp media excellence award...