A reader sends this interesting note on the DPRK Embassy in Vietnam:
I scouted out the NK embassy in Hanoi. The entire building is shuddered all the time. It’s next door to the Thai embassy. This is a building of the same design, but in much more active use. The NK embassy has no visa services [...]
The World Tourism Directory has a fairly extensive list of North Korean tourism-related addresses. For example, the ever popular, “Yacht Racing Association of the D.P.R. of Korea,” is located at: Munsingdong 2, Dongdaewon District, Pyongyang, E-Mail: gfasa@silibank.com. Lots more like that. Also a list of embassies and consulates with addresses, which is perhaps more useful.
This list of books on North Korea includes my own favorites, as well as a few books recommended to me that I’ve not yet read but plan to. If you have any suggestions, please post them in a comment.
Kim Il-sung: The North Korea Leader, by Suh Dae-sook (1995)
Kim Il-song’s North Korea, by Helen-Louise Hunter (1999)
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Gizmodo has an excellent array of Kim Jong-il photos; In Which We Provoke Kim Jong Il in 77 Offensive and Hilarious Ways. Some are sure to become often used classics.
- #Missed it on the 30th as I was working late, but it's now been four years since DPRK Studies has been in blog format.
- #From the Japan Times: "Yasushi Chimura and his wife, Fukie, abducted by North Korea in 1978 but repatriated in 2002, expressed relief Friday that their children [now ages 27, 25, and 21] are adapting smoothly to Japanese life as they marked the fifth anniversary of their arrival in Japan."
- #Via the NYT: "Former President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea, who had been under criminal investigation for corruption, died on Saturday from a fall while hiking on a hill near his retirement home... it was unclear whether the fall was accidental or whether Mr. Roh had committed suicide ... Roh left a will, indicating that the death might have been a suicide." While the man never should have been president, it's sad to see what likely was a suicide.
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