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JOSEPH ELLIS Pulitzer author admits his 'Nam days were fiction after Boston Globe forces the issue...
...activity that he whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's room for a thorough perusal of the New York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet at his ten-room colonial house in Brentwood, where he lives with his second wife, ex-Department Store Executive Frances Loeb, and their two daughters. His other interest is psychoanalysis. After some four...
...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; he saw little of anybody except a few relatives and a cousin who was his closest playmate. His rare...
...Last week, while Kim Jong Nam was being detained in Japan, his father was toasting representatives of the European Commission who were on a rare visiting diplomatic mission. He used the occasion to commit to the country's moratorium on missile tests, signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about...
...JONG NAM, your father just starved 2 million people--what are you going to do now? Sadly, he's not going to Disneyland. A man claiming to be Kim Jong Nam, son of the certainly weird, purportedly evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, was deported from Japan after trying to sneak into the country with two women and a four-year-old boy he wanted to take to Tokyo Disneyland. Japan and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, so Nam, 29, was traveling with a Dominican passport under the name Pang Xiong. The Japanese government refused comment...