Word: propagandas
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...regime that runs the place doesn't lure much foreign investment. But the communist state does see a trickle of capitalists, from telecom engineers to bottled-water vendors. And, perhaps most surprisingly, animators. North Korea has some of the world's cheapest cartoonists, typically specialists in the art of propaganda. In 2001 French-Canadian Guy Delisle went to Pyongyang to manage the production of an animated preschool special for French television. "It was based on children's books with rabbits," he says. "I don't even remember the name...
...received. His maltreatment by the North Koreans should not be used as an excuse. It was Jenkins' own actions that led him to the "hell" of North Korea. He showed his true cowardly nature by deserting the country he was fighting for and then serving as a propaganda tool for the enemy. The U.S. has let a man who is far from a patriot get off lightly. At least Jenkins has decided to live in Japan. The U.S. has no room for traitors. Bradford Paik Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Tarnished Pearl As our Milestone on the death of Uganda's former...
...school was the most dramatic action of the first three days. House by house, block by block, the Marines advanced, methodically securing every building they passed and asking residents to relocate to abandoned buildings to the rear for a few days. One house cleared by Fox Company contained insurgent propaganda showing photos of the same Marine company when they had fought in Fallujah in April 2004. Another contained a body that had been booby-trapped. Echo company also found two weapons caches...
...claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says his country is developing its own style of music. Closing his eyes and clasping his hands to his heart, he launches into a song about a girl who is popular with the boys because she is a model worker. "We call...
...DIED, ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 81, ally in President Mikhail Gorbachev's democratic reform and restructuring of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s; in Moscow. Badly wounded fighting with the Red Army in 1943, Yakovlev joined the Communist Party and rose quickly, serving as acting head of propaganda from 1965 until his increasingly liberal views saw him sidelined as Soviet ambassador to Canada in 1972. Gorbachev met Yakovlev there in 1983 and recalled him as a trusted collaborator, later promoting him to the Politburo. Together the pair set about the reform process described by Yakovlev as "trying to dismantle...