Book showing fun side of North Korean leader draws in some controversy

New York Times / Mpls (red)Star Tribune ^ | 12/8/02

[Valin]

TOKYO -- President Bush calls him evil and says he is building nuclear bombs. Japanese officials say his missiles are aimed at Tokyo. Human rights groups say he uses concentration camps to stay in power. Even at the movies, James Bond is being tortured by the North Korean government. But to Konstantin Pulikovsky, one of the rare foreigners to have spent time with North Korea's secretive leader, Kim Jong-il is a fun-loving guy. Drinking wines imported from France, nibbling on gourmet meals with silver chopsticks and joining in rousing choruses of old Soviet songs with "beautiful lady conductors," North Korea's remote "Dear Leader" emerges in flesh and blood from the pages of a new memoir by Pulikovsky, the representative of President Vladimir Putin in Russia's Far East.

[lepton]

Gee, this author sounds like Jimmy Carter.

[yonif]

Any know where I can obtain or purchase this book online?

Thanks

[Valin]

Any know where I can obtain or purchase this book online?

Great minds think alike. Just what I'd think to know.

[Cicero]

Sure. I understand Stalin and Nero gave some pretty good parties in the old days, unless one of the guests happened to say the wrong thing. And Genghis Kahn had a pretty jolly time around the old campfire at night, too.