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With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule, Kim...
...city abounds in parks, playgrounds, monuments and museums dedicated to Kim II Sung. The architecture of public buildings is monumental in scale; lobbies are hung with crystal chandeliers that soar to dizzying heights, while no ceiling seems lower than 15 feet. Statues and busts of Kim are everywhere, as are portraits of him gazing watchfully down on his people...
...Sprinter Kim Clermont again lowered her own marks in the 100- and 200-meter dashes with times of 12.6 and 26.3, but she too was victimized by Springfield and was only able to manage third-place finishes...
Although she did not set a record, Kim Johnson took the shotput with a 43-ft., 9 3 4-in. toss. Johnson also took third place in the New England Championships last Saturday, competing in what assistant coach Joli Sandoz called "the best shotput field I'd ever seen outside of a national meet...
Besides the revolution, love of country and eventual reunification with the South, the central message promulgated by President Kim is juche (pronounced joo-chay), which roughly translated is "mastery of one's destiny." Applied nationally, it means that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea must be utterly self-reliant. Everything, in fact -from trucks and locomotives to scissors and machine tools-is homemade. A plant manager is apt to boast that no foreigner has ever been involved in his operation. "The quality might not be too perfect," one official admitted about consumer goods, "but they are good...