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...base in the military, according to South Korean intelligence testimony to Seoul lawmakers last week. Jang may have been an obstacle to Kim's plans to some day hand power over to one of his three sons, according to the testimony. Kim himself inherited power from his father, Kim Il Sung, in the communist world's first dynastic succession. "Jang got too big," says Sohn Kwang Joo, an expert on the Kim family at the government-run Research Institute for International Affairs in Seoul...
...University of Vienna, visited Pyongyang in September and for the first time noticed that portraits of North Korean leaders had been removed from his hotel room. In an essay posted on the Internet, Frank says that half the slogans in the capital now read, "The Great Leader Kim Il Sung will always be with us," which suggests a renewed emphasis on Kim's father, who died in 1994, and less emphasis...
...Frank suggests that trimming Kim Jong Il's personality cult could be a sign that the country is paving the way for economic reforms and possibly for a more collective form of leadership. If that's the case, then removing Kim's portraits from public places may be more a sign of strength than of weakness. Besides, the regime's ability to control its citizens appears undiminished. This summer, North Korea launched a sweeping crackdown on illegal bootleg videos of South Korean TV dramas now flooding into the country from China, according to North Korean defectors. In May, Kim took...
...typical of A State of Mind, a new British documentary that offers an intimate look at the world's most shuttered society. As they chronicle the lives of two young gymnasts training to participate in the Mass Games?a stadium-sized patriotic spectacle staged to glorify Kim Jong Il?the filmmakers visit homes and classrooms, join family outings and even tag along on trips to the countryside...
...North Korean daily lives?and because its very existence seems to contradict the regime's policy of nearly total isolation. A State of Mind offers scenes of indoctrination in action as a "revolutionary-history" teacher exhorts junior high school students to hate the U.S. and drills them on Kim Il Sung's "three types of greatness." (The correct answers: greatness in ideology, greatness in leadership and greatness in aura.) And we observe a mother cheerfully cooking breakfast as a wall-mounted radio?which can be turned down but not off?blares propaganda...