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JEWISH BOY FROM BROOKLYN<br>DOING IN A PLACE LIKE NORTH KOREA? </span></big><br> &nbsp; <span style="font-family: Blue Highway;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">BY ALAN PRESS<br> </span></span></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <table style="text-align: left; width: 751px; height: 32px;" border="1" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);" valign="top"><br> <font color="black" face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><b>Contents</b></font> <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><small style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="press.html">Home</a> <br> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="bio.html">About the Author</a> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="intro.html">Introduction</a> </small></span><small style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="page1.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">A Place Like North Korea</span></a><br> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="port1.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Photo Portfolio</span></a><br> <br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><a href="http://chapbooks.webdelsol.com/worldvoices/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> World Voices Home</span></a><br> <br> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://literaryexplorer.webdelsol.com/">The Literary Explorer</a><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://writersonthejob.webdelsol.com/">Writers on the Job</a><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://booksforgottenorunknown.blogspot.com/">Books Forgotten</a><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://thomasekennedy.com/">Thomas E. 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Nor is it unusual to see Armored Personnel Carriers on the roads. The soldiers that you see in the south look like they know their business, and are prepared to do it.<br> ____________________________________________________________ <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <p>All of the NK military officers we saw wore large clips of campaign ribbons pinned to upper left side of their tunics. While we did not see any General Officers in person, we did see many portraits of the Kims surrounded by their broadly smiling generals. (Of course the Kims were always the tallest figures in any group portrait.) On the generals dress uniforms were vertical rows of very large gold medallions, the kind one might think were awarded for extraordinary, courageous leadership in combat. <table> <tr> <td> <img style="border-width: 0px;" src="nkofficer.jpg" width="260" height="377" /><br> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><center><b>Young North Korean Officer</b><br> Note small pin with portraits of Kim I and Kim II above the ribbon clip on the upper left of his uniform. See below for centext.</center> </td> <td> <p>The last war fought on the Korean peninsula ended in 1953. That being the case, one might wonder which battles they led their men to victory in, that earned them those formidable rows of ribbons, and the enormous medals they wore?<p><p>There are many You Tube videos on the web showing very impressive NK military parades, with huge numbers of heavily armed soldiers and sailors goose-stepping through the Kim Il Sung Square in the center of PYG. But they were nowhere to be seen in the areas of the country where they would have been needed were a war to break out. 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