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...tend to watch it,” Ahn says. The group’s most devoted members indulge freely—in two weeks time, Ahn herself has had a quadruple helping. But the allegiance does not stop there. In addition to boughs of holly and a real Christmas tree, Ahn and her roommates decided to use Love Actually as a decorative theme. Any passerby will see their door draped with a red ribbon—“like the cover of the DVD,” Ahn explains—as well as a quote from the movie...
...that became known as the Panmunjom incident. On Aug. 18, 1976, two American officers were hacked to death with axes and metal pikes by a band of North Korean border guards. The melee broke out after the North Koreans tried to stop American and South Korean soldiers from trimming tree branches that blocked the line of sight. The North Koreans expected retaliation for the killings. "They mobilized for war instantly," Jenkins says. "Everybody evacuated and joined up with their units. It was very tense. Me, I just went home." Over the next several years, Jenkins says, he was forced...
...prisoners-malnutrition and disease were rampant, well before famine plagued the nation in the 1990s according to former inmates. But if a detainee breaks the rules to get something to eat, their days in the camps will end. One day, says Kim Yong, ripe chestnuts fell from a tree at the entrance to Cutting Face No. 2, and a prisoner named Kim Chul Min stooped to pick a few of them up. Guards shot and killed him for his trouble. Kim Yong says that a friend of his was so desperate for food that he stole one of the prison...
...still wore revolution-style footwear-better known as "Ho Chi Minh sandals"-handmade from rubber car tires. When Lao authorities caught the group-which had now grown to 34 men, women, children and infants-crossing the border from Cambodia, they were clad in clothes fashioned from tree bark...
...sophomoric title. Even “Satan Says,” one of the album’s highlights, manages to sound paradoxically similar to that haunting song from Home Alone sloppily sung in a round by a hardcore audience, fists pumping up toward an ornate Christmas tree on stage...