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...After a brief chance to change and freshen up, Albright headed to another mausoleum - this one containing the embalmed remains of Kim Il Sung, the founder of communist North Korea and father of its present leader, Kim Jong Il. There she paid a courtesy call on Kim junior's number two, before passing through the room where his father lies in state. Despite the fact that he led the 1950 communist invasion of the south, sparking a war in which more than 50,000 U.S. personnel died, she paused briefly in front of Kim Il Sung's waxen corpse...
...After lunch, the Secretary prepared for her first meeting with Kim. His security guards were flummoxed by the digital camera of the wire-service photographer and seemed uncomfortable at the prospect of foreign civilians - American journalists at that - in the presence of the man known in the DPRK, like his father before him, as the "Great Leader." We had been told beforehand to avoid any sudden movements when in the Great Leader's presence. Not to ask any questions unless the Great Leader addressed us. And under no circumstances to stray from our minders...
After Albright and Kim arrived and shook hands, we all made our way into a room with another lime-green carpet - this one with in a more muted mustard shade - heavily upholstered chairs and a massive rectangular wood table. Albright took in four aides, while Kim took only his deputy foreign minister and two interpreters. Kim greeted Albright once they were seated. "Let me once again welcome you to our country. It's really for the first time for the Secretary of State of the U.S. to come to our country like this. And this is a new one from...
...After almost three hours of talking, Albright and Kim emerged, all smiles, and headed down the hall toward the entrance foyer. Working to make conversation as they passed a nook filled with orchids and two cages containing parakeets, Albright said, "It's so beautiful." The Great Leader had nothing to contribute on the flora or fauna, so he countered, "President Jiang Zemin (of China) stayed here." Albright responded with some constructive flattery, "You have many, many visitors." "But I think the Americans are deserving more frequent visits," Kim said. "See you in a little while," Albright said. They shook hands...
...Downstairs, the minders had sensed restlessness among the journalists, so they preemptively hustled us into buses for a "city tour." The first stop was the memorial to Kim Il Sung's first speech after the defeat of the Japanese. It was a big mosaic, about 20-by-80 feet, depicting happy farmers, machinists and artists looking on in adoration as the original Great Leader spoke. In front of a stadium just past the mural, an old woman with an overstuffed rucksack and a younger man also with a heavy sack on his back got up and started wandering away, frightened...