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...North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong Il or his family, you're dead," says Ahn Jung Sook, who worked as a journalist in Pyongyang before defecting to South Korea last year. Kim Jong Nam's mother is thought to be a former actress who left North Korea years ago and is now believed to be receiving psychiatric care in Russia. His childhood was spent as a recluse...
...missile defense, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage made clear Thursday that Washington would hold talks with Pyongyang "in the near future" once the Bush administration had completed its review of Korea policy. He also made public a letter from President Bush to South Korea?s President Kim Dae Jung promising to "strongly support the South?s engagement policy on the North." The statements are clearly intended to undo some of the diplomatic damage done during President Kim?s visit to Washington in March, when President Bush had appeared to distance himself from the South Korean leader's policy...
...first time that Bush's impatience with the niceties of diplomacy has ruffled friendly feathers. During South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's recent visit to Washington, Bush embarrassed the Nobel laureate by saying he didn't trust North Korea to live up to the missile agreement Kim has been painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke...
...Jung's interest has raised his awareness of Japan. He even went there on a short trip in 1999 and was impressed -- it was clean and the people were kind, he says. But he didn't have his rose-colored glasses on. He is well aware of Japan's brutal colonization of the Korean peninsula, and knows that Japan's conservative leaders and opinion makers are unrepentant. That colors his image of Japan the country with some darker strokes. "They still have this fantasy about their militaristic past," says Jung. "They don't think they did anything wrong." But Jung...
...Jung Soo Bong, 76, is Jung's grandmother. As a young woman, she lived in Seoul during the Japanese occupation. She doesn't like to talk about it much. Besides, she says, "everybody went through it." But probe a little and the bitter feelings aren't too far below the surface. Right after she got married at the age of 21, the Japanese came and press-ganged her husband into the military. She was separated from him for over a year and didn't see him again until after Japan's defeat in 1945. "I try not to harbor bitter...