Yesterday I ordered and got into my hands a pile of letters from Kim Il Song to the East German leaders from 1955-56.
The man has a quirky signature, and his typewriter is epic, leaving little corona of ink around each hangul. It was nice to finally find the great anti-Japanese guerrilla himself on paper.
- North Koreans arriving in Berlin, 1952
Finally, on North Korea’s deteriorating Socialist internationalism, don’t miss this account in German [http://tinyurl.com/2cqaewk] of a Frankfurt reporter’s border expedition to Dandong/Sinuiju.
Adam Cathcart 