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...Auditioning for the chorus of Miss Pyongyang b Welcoming Secretary Albright c Training for 2004 Olympics Synchronized Armed Mayhem event d Celebrating their first exposure to a Village People album...
...landed at dawn outside the capital, Pyongyang, and taxied toward the grim concrete terminal - a single building, definitely no duty free - as peasants stared from embankments above drainage ditches. A few wheeled bikes as if on their way to work, others merely glanced past the electrified fence surrounding the airport at the jet emblazoned with the words United States of America - a name they had only heard in conjunction with words like "imperialist" and "colonialist...
That night, Albright hosted a dinner at the Magnolia Hall in downtown Pyongyang. Past several gates manned by nervous guards, Albright entered through heavy wood doors into a relatively light and airy interior. At either end of the long hall in which Albright waited to greet Kim, were back-lit photographs of woods, mountains and planted gardens. Kim arrived soon after, shaking Albright's hand, and then moving down the line of her senior aides. His attendant, looking annoyed, repeatedly gesticulated for the Secretary of State to follow Kim down the line...
...seemed remarkably unified during the Opening Ceremony when they joined hands and marched together for the first time ever. In the spirit of reconciliation, South Korea even trimmed its marching delegation from 400-plus to 90 to avoid overwhelming the smaller North Korean troupe. There was just one problem: Pyongyang had given an inflated estimate of its Olympic squad and had to fly in last-minute participants to bring its delegation up to 90. "The cost of getting them here was worth it," says North Korean delegation member Mun Si Song. "We had to show we were equal to South...
...week later, Russian officials revealed that they have a letter they say Kim gave Putin during his July 19 visit, which reaffirms Pyongyang's offer to halt its intercontinental ballistic missile program. That pricked up ears in the State Department, which is now probing North Korean diplomatic contacts to find out just what the "Dear Leader" has in mind...