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...moment frozen in time. With the Yankees down 3-2 in the ninth, bases loaded, the call came to board the Secretary of State's plane immediately or be left behind. So the journalists, diplomats and security personnel accompanying Madeleine Albright to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), better known as North Korea, left the real world with the bases loaded in the ninth in Game 1 of the World Series - and headed down a rabbit hole...
Against a backdrop of disused Russian planes, Albright was greeted by senior DPRK officials, and rapidly whisked off in her armored limo, which had been flown in with two other cars earlier in the week. Her quarters for the two-night stay were in the Paekhawon Guest House, a boxy concrete structure set amid beautifully landscaped grounds, looking onto a man-made lake and the massive Revolutionary Martyr's Mausoleum memorializing the guerrillas who led the fight against the Japanese colonial power in Korea before World...
...DPRK's poverty is visible everywhere. From the crumbling buildings to the rusty electric trams and buses, to the dour citizens hauling tattered, bulging knapsacks along the streets of the capital. The overly helpful minder from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was evasive when asked if the houses on the way into the city had electricity. "Yes... there are electric lights in those buildings," he said sheepishly. He meant there are lights there, but no electricity to run them...
...Dilawar Ali Khan, UNICEF's representative here, said his access had improved dramatically in the four years he'd worked in the DPRK. He said if the DPRK can open up to the outside world and become a market economy, outsiders would find the population "very hard workers". He said that as far as he could tell, the North Koreans are very keen now to open up. "It's the compulsion of difficulties which is forcing them to look outward," he said...
...regions, causing severe damage to farmland and killing at least 230 people. The flooding, which has caused less extensive damage in parts of South Korea, has destroyed as much as 20 percent of North Korea's annual food production. Robert Hauser, country representative of the World Food Programme in DPRK, talked to TIME after returning from Kaesong City, which is flooded by about 8 feet of water: "I"ve lived in tropical areas," Hauser said. "I've never seen such heavy rain continue uninterrupted for hours and hours." Hauser saw malnutrition on his trip, where, because of the rationing that...