The Japanese government will prohibit transfers of money to North Korea if the communist country launches another ballistic missile aimed at Japan or if it's found to have recycled spent nuclear rods to make bombs...
The Obsessions of Kim Jong Il
NYTimes.com / May 19, 2003
...Chief among these [North Korean ] virtues is "sobak ham," a hard-to-translate Korean term that corresponds closely to the word spontaneity in its Marxist-Leninist sense...In North Korea, the people's spontaneity is seen as one of the country's greatest strengths.
North Korean novels and movies often show the hero casting off the restraints of his book learning in a fit of wild, sometimes suicidal rage against the Japanese or American enemy. This political culture induces officials to tolerate a high level of violence in daily life; North Korean refugees attest that fistfights are the accepted way for men and women to settle even minor differences.
