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...should say that we have enough nuclear bombs to defend against a U.S. attack." KIM GYE GWAN, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister, talking about Pyongyang's long-suspected nuclear capabilities in an interview with America's ABC News...
...Pyongyang: a Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly...
...world's most hyper-controlled society, where the only lights in the city seem to be the ones focused on monuments to the "Dear Leader." Though it lacks the deep cultural penetration of some other memoirs, like Marjane Satrapri's Persepolis series and Joe Sacco's Balkan War books, Pyongyang provides a cartoon corrective to a place that too often gets characterized in "cartoonish" ways. From Ming to Kim 9/23/2005
...regime likes to show off the Arirang festival to foreign visitors (Kim took then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to a similar event during her 2000 visit). Staged at night in the giant May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, the pageant features tens of thousands of costumed dancers, gymnasts and singers performing an elaborate tribute to Kim and his father - North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. Thousands of children seated on the bleachers opposite the spectators flip colored flash cards to create an ever-changing backdrop of slogans and uplifting images. ?They are fighting for the happiness of our people...
...controls and changed mindsets in the doggedly Stalinist state. How much is hard to say. But a Russian scholar on our tour notes that the crowds aren't as passionate as they once were. In the 1980s, ?You could see their eyes shining,? says Andrei Lankov, who lived in Pyongyang in 1984-85. ?People are maybe not learning the truth but (they are) getting tired...