Taro Toporific
02-19-2003, 11:57 AM
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Partying while Korea's crisis festers (http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=184842003)
TOKYO -- THE LARGER-than-life pictures of the Dear Leader and the Great Leader look out benevolently over the banquet in the wood-panelled hall, as diplomats from other marginalised nations elbow their way past one another to get at tables piled high with food. Silver tureens of meat and vegetables and sushi on wooden platters complement an endless supply of beer and Korean soju, the local equivalent of whisky
Kim Jong Il’s 61st birthday is being celebrated in style by Chongryun, the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. It is hard to believe, as I stand in what is North Korea’s de facto embassy, in the heart of Tokyo, that the world’s most reclusive state - and some would argue the most dangerous - is shrouded in darkness because it lacks fuel oil, while most of its 22 million people do not have enough to eat. An estimated 200,000 people living in Japan belong to the organisation, swearing allegiance to the regime in Pyongyang, encouraged to send as much hard cash as they can back to the Motherland.
...Ordinary Japanese people have taken matters into their own hands. More than 300 attacks against ethnic North Korean people - mainly students, easily singled out by their traditional uniforms...
Partying while Korea's crisis festers (http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=184842003)
TOKYO -- THE LARGER-than-life pictures of the Dear Leader and the Great Leader look out benevolently over the banquet in the wood-panelled hall, as diplomats from other marginalised nations elbow their way past one another to get at tables piled high with food. Silver tureens of meat and vegetables and sushi on wooden platters complement an endless supply of beer and Korean soju, the local equivalent of whisky
Kim Jong Il’s 61st birthday is being celebrated in style by Chongryun, the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. It is hard to believe, as I stand in what is North Korea’s de facto embassy, in the heart of Tokyo, that the world’s most reclusive state - and some would argue the most dangerous - is shrouded in darkness because it lacks fuel oil, while most of its 22 million people do not have enough to eat. An estimated 200,000 people living in Japan belong to the organisation, swearing allegiance to the regime in Pyongyang, encouraged to send as much hard cash as they can back to the Motherland.
...Ordinary Japanese people have taken matters into their own hands. More than 300 attacks against ethnic North Korean people - mainly students, easily singled out by their traditional uniforms...