By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2012 GYEONGJU, South Korea — On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim Yong-chul sat crossed-legged on the floor…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2012 GYEONGJU, South Korea — On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim Yong-chul sat crossed-legged on the floor…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 27, 2011 PHOTOGRAPHS by the Los Angeles Times SEOUL — On a snowy, overcast day, North Korea bid farewell to “Dear Leader”…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 24, 2011 SEOUL — In 1967, Kim Young-soon was a dancer in Pyongyang, North Korea, when her best friend visited with crazy…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2011 SEOUL, South Korea — At age 74, Kim Young-soon has every reason to dance on Kim Jong Il’s grave. The…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Korea Times SAGOKRI, South Korea — Lee Young-guk is a struggling duck breeder in muddy work clothes,…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2010 SEOUL — They’re on the streets at all hours, the motorcycle deliverymen slicing through traffic in their race against the…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2010 SEOUL — During a 1999 visit to Pyongyang to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, chief U.S. negotiator William…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2010 SEOUL — Plaintiffs’ attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner was in her Jerusalem office in July when she got news of the Puerto…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2010 SEOUL, South Korea — As a boy in the North Korean capital, Kang Chol Hwan kept aquariums. In a city…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2010 SEOUL — For years, Kim Young Soon said, she struggled with a cruel uncertainty: She didn’t know the crime that…