Kim Jong Il: The Lessons of Life and Death
I remember my first close encounter with Kim Jong Il in July 2000 in Pyongyang, when he briskly walked into…
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Behind the Scenes with Kim and Dmitry
The recent Russia-DPRK summit was both eventful and insightful regarding the devious multiple games being played behind the scenes of…
Who Doesn’t Like Russia-North Korean Rapprochement?
Observers from many countries have tried to analyze the breakthrough in relations between Moscow and Pyongyang that was reached at…
Lee Myung Bak’s Nordpolitik: A U-turn in the Pipeline? (Part II)
So in case you wondered what T.S. Eliot was doing upfront in Part I of this article, the squalid take…