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...Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something of a breakthrough in September, when Pyongyang seemed to agree to forego its nuclear ambitions in return for economic assistance. But the South-desperate not to see a collapse north of the DMZ-would like to give the North more aid, and sooner than Washington contemplates. From Korea, Bush flies to Beijing, where he will meet with the leaders...
...autobiography, which was published in Japan in October (and coauthored by this correspondent), Jenkins gives a detailed account of Panjoy's tale. He claims that she told him she was grabbed in Macau, where she was living at the time, taken by boat to Pyongyang, and made to marry Larry Allen Abshier, another U.S. Army deserter in North Korea. According to Jenkins, the couple lived near his own home outside of Pyongyang. Abshier died in 1983 and Panjoy was moved away by party cadres in 1989. Jenkins says he doesn't know what became...
...While the show may have been forgettable, Delisle's two-month visit wasn't. He was allowed to take a long look at the world's most guarded state. And after he left, Delisle set about recreating his experience using the medium he knows best: cartoons. The result, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, is a graphic novel that is a fascinating and hilarious sketch of his time in the country. Delisle admits that he didn't see anything the government didn't want him to see. But from what he was allowed to witness, he strings together a series...
...limited access to poke tentatively at big issues like nuclear weapons, famines and economic reform. But Delisle, through the simple use of charcoal, ink and dialogue bubbles, captures aspects of life in North Korea that tend to elude observers in other media. Like light. Due to severe electrical shortages, Pyongyang makes do with dim lightbulbs and minimal streetlights. That's tough to capture in photographs, for example, save perhaps for satellite images that have shown North Korea as a (literally) benighted nation. But Delisle uses drawings of a dim hotel lobby with a lonely turtle swimming in a tank...
...paper. "There's ... an armored vehicle from Stalin, another from Mao, three fabulous Russian cars from the '50s and one or two South Korean models," he writes, "but I'm too lazy to draw them all." A pity, but even without them, Delisle has drawn an unforgettable picture of Pyongyang...