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...after nearly 40 years, North Korean officials rifled through his personal belongings, Jenkins says, and confiscated family photographs that included anyone other than himself, his wife and their two daughters. Or so they thought. In their haste, the North Korean censors missed a 1984 photo taken in Wonsan on the country's east coast. At first glance, it is an innocuous family snap of Jenkins with his wife Hitomi Soga and their first daughter Mika during a rare trip to the beach. But at the left of the frame, another sunbather is visible. Jenkins has identified the woman as Anocha...
Ikuko Nishimura approaches me as I stand on the deck of the Peace Boat, watching the North Korean port of Wonsan draw closer. A middle-aged Japanese housewife from the southern city of Yamaguchi, Nishimura is too young to remember much about Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula more than half a century ago, too young to remember her country's brutal subjugation of Koreans during World War II. But as a Japanese, she feels a collective guilt for the sins of an older generation. "I'm sorry," she says suddenly, bowing in the direction of Wonsan's sweeping...
...Sung was a nobody when he arrived at the port of Wonsan on Sept. 19, 1945, at the end of World War II and the beginning of chaos on the Korean peninsula. He had lived the previous five years in obscurity in the Soviet Union and returned to his native land dressed in the uniform of a Soviet army captain. Some people did not even believe he was who he claimed to be. Kim Il Sung? Wasn't that the name of a famous guerrilla? Didn't he die fighting the Japanese in Manchuria years before? Could this fleshy...
...ethnic Korean battalion. In Khabarovsk he married Kim Chong Suk, who had joined Kim Il Sung's guerrillas in 1935 and had followed him into exile. After the Soviets entered the war in 1945 and occupied Japan's northeast Asian territories, Kim and 66 fellow officers were sent to Wonsan to form the core of a North Korean high command. It was then, according to former high-ranking Soviet officials, that Kim was selected by local Soviet commanders as Moscow's choice to become Korean leader...
...current Pentagon analyses, the North Korean incursion across the DMZ is stopped within three weeks by a superior U.S. air campaign. American troops land at the North Korean port of Wonsan, an Allied noose encircles Pyongyang and topples strongman Kim Il Sung within four months. The Koreas reunite -- with the seat of power in Seoul...