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...have a wide range of significant political connections because of the nature of their appointments. Chosen on the basis of their work as political "practitioners," their ranks include Robin Renwick, who served as Loar Soames' advisors in Zimbabwe, Benigno Aquino, ex-Presidential candidate in the Phillipines, and Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung, who will join the program next year...
...announcement this spring that exiled South Korean scholar Kim Dae Jung, a former South Korean presidential candidate, would come to Harvard as a visiting scholar next year has refocused attention on the University's relationship with its frequent dissident visitors. Kim, who has had a standing invitation to the CFIA since 1973, says he chose Harvard over an invitation from Georgetown University because "Harvard is the great symbol of American democracy." Although some of his supporters fear for his safety while here--he was kidnapped from Japan by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973 and sentenced to death...
This isolation is doubtless intensified by the lunatic extremes of the Kim cult and the Juche Idea, a somewhat opaque notion that stresses that the masses are the agents of revolution and man is master of everything. The result is government by total mobilization. Kindergarten children march, singing, to school; construction workers march, singing, to work. The Muscovite subway stations, all marble and murals, offer glass-framed copies of the party daily, Rodong Sinmun, on every platform. Meanwhile, at the Mansudae Art Theater, a multimillion-dollar showpiece groaning with chandeliers, the revolutionary opera Song of Paradise climaxes with the cast...
Many of the encomiums heaped upon Kim Il Sung are, in any language, indecipherable gobbledygook. Korea Today, a monthly propaganda magazine, published this sentence: "His unexcelled prodigious wisdom . . . cyclopaedic knowledge of nature and society, clairvoyant scientific insight with which to perceive clearly the essence of inextricably entangled phenomena and ability to compress aspirations of millions of people in a simple proposition ... are his distinguished qualities with which to conduct ideo-theoretical activities." Moreover, North Korean officials steadfastly assert that the world looks to Pyongyang for inspiration and that the government's paid propaganda advertisements in Western newspapers constitute editorial...
...goes for food (a raincoat costs around $32 and a black-and-white TV $160). Rents are negligible or nonexistent. Consumer goods are generally drab and in short supply. Only imported Volvos, Toyotas and Mercedes racing through the quiet streets suggest a world of plenty beyond the walls of Kim Il Sung's socialist fortress. But North Koreans do not publicly acknowledge that possibility. As one movie commentary put it, "Now where can you find such a paradise, good for people to live...