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...Carter brought peace in our time? The standoff with North Korea seems to have genuinely cooled off in the wake of his talks with the late Kim Il Sung. An American invasion of Haiti was averted partly because of his last ditch efforts...
Both lonely places are in some respects still locked in 1953 (the year when Fidel Castro launched his first rebel assault and when Kim Il Sung began building his ghost republic), and both are further hemmed in by their commitment to guerrilla leaders who really did help to free their people from foreign domination. Yet beneath those surface similarities, North Korea and Cuba are as different as Doctor Strangelove and Doctor Zhivago, as different as a made-to-order Stalinist dystopia where not a thought is out of place and an unruly Caribbean island that is the stuff of Marx...
When I flew into North Korea, I felt as if I had landed in another galaxy. It was not just the spotless, carless streets, the loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda at dawn, the faceless groups of people filing silently from Kim Il Sung Stadium to Kim Il Sung University to Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (all with badges of Kim Il Sung on their hearts); it was, even more, the spooky unreality of a country that was building a 105-story tourist hotel while allowing almost no tourists, and showing off an Olympic stadium for the Games that were never held...
...others spoke. Since then he has not said a word to his 22 million subjects. He has not met with representatives of any other country. And he has not been officially installed as President or as General Secretary of the communist Workers' Party -- positions held by Kim Il Sung at his death...
...nuclear program, and the White House soft-pedaled its announcement today. While the Pongyang meeting goes on, nuclear experts from both countries will also meet in Berlin.KIM JONG'S NOT ILL? Don't believe rumors that Kim Jong Il -- the seldom-seen heir apparent to the late Kim Il Sung as North Korean head of state -- is sick or out of political favor, his stepbrother advises. South Korean newspapers, whose own government amplified the rumors, quoted younger sibling Kim Pyong Il as saying his brother would assume power as soon as he finishes mourning their father's death...