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...CLANCY'S GHOST RECON 2 Developed in cooperation with Defense Department contractors, this new release at Blockbuster has been assailed by Pyongyang for depicting multinational forces invading North Korea amid food riots. A government-run newspaper there noted that U.S. video games featuring invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq preceded actual wars. By Julie Rawe and Logan Orlando
...Pyongyang had designs on Jenkins beyond teaching English. Like his three colleagues, Jenkins was a prize cold-war souvenir: an American who had voluntarily wandered into North Korean hands. He was an asset and certainly more valuable alive than dead. "At some point, someone told us that Kim Il Sung said that one American was worth 100 Koreans," says Jenkins. "After that, I didn't think they would kill us without a good reason." His first experience as a propaganda tool occurred soon after he was captured, when he and his fellow deserters were profiled in a cover story...
Despite the Americans' penchant for freedalisms, the North Koreans were, after seven years, evidently pleased with their behavior and apparent indoctrination. In 1972, the four received North Korean citizenship ("Whether we wanted it or not," says Jenkins) and were ordered to start teaching English at a military school in Pyongyang, run by the party's Reconnaissance Bureau. Jenkins taught three 90-minute classes a day, 10 to 15 days a month. There were about 30 students in each class. "They wanted us to teach them American pronunciation," he says, a prospect that seems amusing considering many Americans would have trouble...
...result has clearly shown how cruel, cold-blooded and inhumane the Kim Jong Il regime is." SAKIE YOKOTA, mother of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese student abducted to North Korea in 1977, on Pyongyang's attempt to pass off other people's remains as those of her daughter...
...PYONGYANG By Guy Delisle In early 2000 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to travel to North Korea allowing him to spend several weeks observing every aspect of the lives of North Koreans. (September...