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That’s how business owners Kim Moore and Paul Conforti describe their sugar-focused restaurant Finale, which is set to open a new branch this fall in the former location of Ma Soba...
...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...
...biggest donor of food aid to North Korea, yet it remains the enemy, viewed as the unrepentant instigator of the Korean War. Walking along the banks of the Taedong, I stopped to chat with a university student studying a computer science text on a park bench. Wearing a Kim Il Sung pin on his shirt, Son Song Jin said he liked basketball, so I asked him about his favorite stars. Had he heard of Michael Jordan? He looked perplexed. No, he hadn't. So what did he think of America? Pyongyang was destroyed by American warplanes during the Korean...
...December elections, confirming speculation that has gathered force since Korea's remarkable World Cup run. Chung, also an independent legislator in the National Assembly, has deep wells of World Cup popularity to draw from; current polls already give him a 10% lead over opposition candidate Lee Hoi-chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made overtures to Chung, but the football chief says he will form an independent party shortly after he officially declares his candidacy. In running for the presidency, Chung is fulfilling the dreams of his late father Chung Ju-yung, the founder...