In a dark way, we all expected the news. And yet when it came, it still made his friends and family flinch, and shake our heads at the calculated evil…
In a dark way, we all expected the news. And yet when it came, it still made his friends and family flinch, and shake our heads at the calculated evil…
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, 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…
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, December 9, 2008 INCHEON, South Korea — On a drizzly December morning, Lee Min-bok kneels on the cold ground near the North Korean…