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Former three-star North Korean General Yoo Sung Kim discussed his time in and escape from a concentration camp yesterday in Emerson Hall, strongly rebuking the government of Kim Jong Il and those states that provide North Korea with foreign...
...signaled since assuming office, that he's not averse to having the U.S. talk directly with the North. The fact that the North has been typically ornery of late - possibly crossing into Seoul's territorial waters, defiantly announcing that it's still reprocessing plutonium - may just be Kim Jong Il's way of getting ready to talk...
...pictures of the rise of Kim Jong Il...
...episode late Tuesday morning only intensifies the deeply strained relations between the two Koreas. Earlier this year, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il staged a bit of a charm offensive, ending a period of silence while he recovered from a stroke. Kim said he would again agree to talks about his nuclear program, and he hosted former President Bill Clinton in Pyongyang, who traveled to the North to win the release of two U.S. journalists who had been arrested there. But there's little sign of any thaw with Seoul. Pyongyang has been infuriated that South Korean President Lee Myung...
Over the following days, most of the sights on the tour were familiar, like the impressive, 66-ft. (20 m) bronze statue of late President Kim Il Sung, and the iconic Juche Tower with its excellent city views. But softer handling from our state-mandated Korean chaperones, and the minor but noticeable improvements in the lives of some of Pyongyang's citizens, were unexpected...