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...returned to Yanji in 1998. Last week, as part of the crackdown, Oh was taken away by police but managed to escape when their car had a flat tire. He is now in hiding again. In the border towns, too, North Koreans are living on the edge. Park Hye Sook crossed the frozen Tumen in January. At first life got better. She had the luxury of going to the hairdresser; her shiny black hair now sweeps across her forehead in short, neatly trimmed bangs. Her five-year-old daughter sitting beside her smiles shyly. But Park now feels unsafe...
...North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong Il or his family, you're dead," says Ahn Jung Sook, who worked as a journalist in Pyongyang before defecting to South Korea last year. Kim Jong Nam's mother is thought to be a former actress who left North Korea years ago and is now believed to be receiving psychiatric care in Russia. His childhood was spent as a recluse...
...manages to be intelligent as well as sentimental is a remake of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, which CBS will broadcast at 9 p.m. on Dec. 21. Based on the autobiographical story by Capote, it stars Patty Duke and is set in Alabama in the 1930s. Duke plays Sook, a childlike but loving old woman, who lives with her two sisters, her brother and her little cousin Buddy. Sook and Buddy (the adorable Eric Lloyd) are best friends. This relationship offends Sook's bossy, practical sister Jennie (Piper Laurie). They should be separated, Jennie decides, and Buddy must...
When you first see Duke and hear her speak her opening line, "Oh my, it's fruitcake weather," your heart sinks. Old-age makeup and a Southern accent--this means for sure that we're in for a wondrous, lovable eccentric. Fruitcake weather, indeed. Duke does play Sook with flibbertigibbet mugging and a sort of clown walk, but you see why this lonely, sensitive boy loves her, and by the time they have to part, you are almost as tearful as they both are. What is most admirable about A Christmas Memory is that the battle between responsibility and emotion...
...ruthless management of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program and terrorist activities, including the 1983 attack in Burma that killed a large part of the visiting South Korean Cabinet and a 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner. And if someone gets in the way of his succession? Says Dae-Sook Suh, an expert on the Pyongyang regime at the University of Hawaii: "Kim Jong Il will have him killed right away...