The North Korean army has brought light machine guns into
the Demilitarized Zone, the United Nations Command on
the Korean Peninsula says.
From CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime FlorCruz Tuesday, October 1, 2002 Posted: 10:49 AM HKT (0249 GMT)
Resentment against the U.S. dates back to the 1950-53 Korean War
SINUIJU, North Korea (CNN) -- A painting on the wall of a school in Pyongyang shows a U.S. soldier captured during the Korean War. In a shoe factory in Sinuiju, another poster depicts an attack on the United States.
These are a few signs of the deep resentment toward America in North Korea.
Some of Pyongyang's policies may be loosening up, but on the ground, personality cult and hostility to the U.S. persists tenaciously.
Mere mention of the United States triggers passionate rant.
"During the Korean War in 1950, they came to Korea and murdered a lot of our people. So we Korean people consider American imperialists as our sworn enemy. Even now they still don't want to trade with us," Chang Kum Suk, the director of the Peony Peak Garment Factory, says.
The North Korean army has brought light machine guns into
the Demilitarized Zone, the United Nations Command on
the Korean Peninsula says.