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Person of the Week Kim Jong Il, leader of communist North Korea, is having a hard time making totalitarianism pay. Pyongyang is apparently broke, so Kim issued an apology for the kidnapping of 13 Japanese in the '70s, hoping Japan would reciprocate with billions in monetary compensation for its colonization of Korea. Even evil has to pay the rent...
...North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung drew much of his legitimacy from his role in the guerrilla struggle against Japanese colonial rule, so these are the kinds of stories North Koreans grow up with. They help to explain why Pyongyang will demand billions in reparations as part of any normalization of relations with Japan?and why Koizumi is likely to exit North Korea with little to show for the visit unless he signals Tokyo's willingness...
...model farm half an hour's drive northwest of Pyongyang, we were told about America's sins against North Korea. Standing in the doorway of the simple two-room home where she has lived for decades, Ri Yong Sun, 65, recalled how U.S. bombing during the Korean War destroyed fields and homes here. Ri wanted the Americans to apologize. The U.S., along with Japan, is the biggest donor of food aid to North Korea, yet it remains the enemy, viewed as the unrepentant instigator of the Korean War. Walking along the banks of the Taedong, I stopped to chat with...
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...China: Devastating floods Asia's Child-Sex Industry Afghanistan: Our Friend's Enemy Malaysia: Taliban-style Laws? Korea: Pyongyang Yellow Pages Japan: The 'Kamikaze...