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Monday, March 14. Park Kwang-su’s Chilsu (South Korea, 1996). 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...again. In November, South Korean intelligence revealed that Kim had sacked his powerful brother-in-law Jang Song Taek, husband of Kim's sister, after he was accused of building an independent power base in the military in an attempt to wrest power from the family, according to Sohn Kwang Joo, the author of a biography about the North Korean leader...
...have been an obstacle to Kim's plans to some day hand power over to one of his three sons, according to the testimony. Kim himself inherited power from his father, Kim Il Sung, in the communist world's first dynastic succession. "Jang got too big," says Sohn Kwang Joo, an expert on the Kim family at the government-run Research Institute for International Affairs in Seoul...
...Probably not. With no apparent unrest in the North, it seems more likely that Kim is trying to dial back his cult of personality, possibly to present himself as a more normal leader internationally. "He is confident in his power," says Kim Kwang In, a North Korea specialist at Seoul's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. "He doesn't need idolatry." But if this was a show of self-abnegation, it was a modest one. North Korea uses more than 1,000 flattering designations for its leader, including Guardian Deity of the Planet and Sun of the 21st Century. Meanwhile, Dear Leader...
...Choi was arrested on Oct. 16 and is awaiting trial on corruption charges. (Lee Young Roh suffered a stroke and is incommunicado.) At least 11 other aides, friends and associates of Roh are under scrutiny. Among them are Lee Kwang Jae, a former Blue House secretary for information and policy planning, who resigned on Oct. 18 after being accused by opposition party members of accepting bribes, and Ahn Hee Jung, a presidential aide who is currently on trial for allegedly funneling $166,000 from a faltering commercial bank into a private political research institute set up by Roh. Meanwhile, investigators...