She is preparing to make a reporting trip to North Korea in 2009 and is wrestling with conflicting emotions.
In fact, this character named “Michael Chinoy” is me — making me one of a very small number of real-life Americans who appear with a speaking part in any North Korean novels.
I also met the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, grandfather of current dictator Kim Jong Un, three times.
Former CNN International Editor Eason Jordan stands behind North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and US President Jimmy Carter in Pyongyang in 1994.
Although published more than a quarter century ago, “Eternal Life” only became available on North Korea websites in the past decade.
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