Word: pyongyang
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...Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, may be dying, afflicted with pancreatic cancer, according to some accounts. His designated successor is his youngest son, about whom next to nothing is known except that he is in his 20s. There are reports of a power struggle now under way in Pyongyang, as the leadership faces the prospect of life without...
...Documentarian Nancy Heikin just wanted to see Japan with her husband, who was attending a human-rights conference, but ended up spending seven years recording the testimony of escapees from the brutal Pyongyang regime. To be seen at October's Pusan International Film Festival and released in South Korea afterward, Kimjongilia - the title is taken from the name of a begonia cultivated in honor of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - is a harrowing night at the movies. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...said in your story, Pyongyang's only consistency has been its unpredictability. So America should attack it with a larger level of unpredictability. Lift all sanctions. Let the giant corporate world in. The only life that the larger population of North Korea knows is the life of not having much. Give them a life of choices - export the good life into North Korea. Show them what life could be like with someone else in the capital. Do this for a year or so, then push your agendas. And if Pyongyang again starts to drag its feet, take it all away...
...suspicion fall on the Kim regime? The South Koreans immediately blamed their cousins to the north, but Seoul fingers Pyongyang for all sorts of things, and not always with much to back up its claims. But in this case, there is some circumstantial evidence to support their allegations...
...despite its backward image, the so-called Hermit Kingdom could have pulled it off. Though Pyongyang may have few resources, it spends a lot of them on technology: computer studies are an important part of school and university curriculums. Stratfor's Baker points out that North Korea has become a major player in the computer-animation industry, which means it has banks of highly sophisticated computers, and people who know how to use them. North Korean hackers have in the past, for instance, launched more sophisticated attacks that actually penetrated South Korean sites. (See the 50 best websites...