Word: kimchi
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...guests had plowed through Hearts of MacArthichoke d'Inchon and toyed with their Filet de Sole au Yalu River. They had survived bowls of kimchi, the mouth-searing concoction of pickled cabbage, hot peppers and garlic that is Korea's national dish. And now, with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades...
...same time, can travel distances at unheard-of speed, and knows all there is to know. In its zeal to create a living legend, North Korea has preserved a bewildering variety of Kim memorabilia: mats he sat on, pencils he used, even an empty jar that had once held kimchi (the potent, spicy relish made from fermented cabbage), which he once "looked into" while visiting a peasant family. Surprisingly, North Koreans know little about the private life of their great father-teacher. Most people do not know the name of his wife (Kim Sung Ae) or how many children...
...been clubbed repeatedly with a four-by-four timber only a week before their release. Bradley Crowe, 21, a communications technician third class, said treatment of the crew worsened in September, when a U.S. apology expected by the North Koreans failed to materialize. Fed little besides soup and kimchi, a garlic-laden cabbage dish, all of the men lost weight-one as much...
...nationalism, Kim permits women to wear colorful national costume rather than pajama-style uniforms; men wear Western-style suits. Even the Peking-to-Pyongyang railroad is "Koreanized" when it clatters across the Yalu into North Korea: the Chinese dining car is unhitched and replaced by one serving spicy Korean kimchi...
Peeling the Onion. A man of severe personal austerity (he drives an aging Dodge, sleeps only five hours a night), Park has as his administration's motto, "Seeing is believing." To that end, he travels frequently through the countryside, sharing rice wine and kimchi-the garlic-laden pickled cabbage of Korea -with farmers who still live and labor much as they did centuries ago. No gladhander, he adopts a professional role in explaining his aims to the people. The current goal: ratification of a Korean-Japanese treaty (TIME, April 2) that would normalize relations between the two antagonistic neighbors...