By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2010 OSAKA, Japan — Ko Jong-mi can still see her mother lying on her deathbed in a shabby North Korean village….
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2009 SEOUL — As he cased the security at the foreign embassies in Hanoi, the 78-year-old retiree was seized with sudden…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2009 ANSEONG, South Korea — The soprano in the blue dress sang a sad tune about a sacred mountain. Soon the…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2008 SEOUL — In 1967, Kim Young-soon was a dancer in Pyongyang, North Korea, when her best friend visited with crazy…