North Korea Undercover (38 page)

Osijek, Croatia 94–5

Outer Space Treaty (1967) 10

Pak Kum Chol 188

Panorama
(BBC)

‘North Korea Undercover’ 11, 12, 16–17, 108, 164–5

‘The Superdollar Plot’ 216–24

Park Hun Chol 129

Park, Mungo 28

Parrish, Jerry 250–1, 257, 262, 263

Parry, Richard Lloyd 14

PCI (Partita Comunista Italiana)
see
Italian Communist Party

Petrov, A. M. 120, 121

Planetarium, Pyongyang 21

Pol Pot 63, 98, 289

Poland 37, 115, 126

Presbyterianism 64, 65

prisons

Prison Camp 12 (Chongori Re-Education Centre) 88, 89–90

Prison Camp 15 (Yodok) 89, 280–81

see also
gulags

Pulgasari
(film) 194

Pyongyang 10–11, 22, 44, 100, 126, 210, 211, 273

Amisan area 51

‘Arc de Triomphe’ 31, 98

bookshop 101

class system 25–6, 27

Daedonggang Diplomatic Club and karaoke bar 126–7

Grand People’s Study House 162–4,165–6, 181

Haebangsan hotel 31–3, 34–5

Japanese occupation 70

Juche Tower 43–4

Kim Il Sung Institute of Health and Longevity 182

Kim Il Sung Square 9, 44, 150, 240, 283

Kim Il Sung University 165, 166, 187, 189

Korean Workers’ Party obelisk 44, 50, 75

in Korean War 72, 113–14

Koryo Hotel 266

Kumsusan Memorial Palace/Palace of the Sun 4, 35–7

mass rally (October, 1945) 71–2

maternity hospital 268–70, 272–4

Mausoleum 35–7, 40, 42–3, 78

The Metro 266–7

Palace bodyguard 157

PCI (Italian Communist Party) visit (1969) 140–43

Planetarium 21–2

restaurants 52

roads and traffic 29–31, 35, 210, 283

Ryugyong Hotel 21, 211

show trial (1953) 119–19

State Circus 275–6

University of Foreign Languages 158–9, 161

Zoo 95–7, 99–101

railway system, North Korean 84

Rawling, F. B.
see
Todd, Hugh

Reagan, President Ronald 18

Red Cross, International 268, 277, 290

Rhee, Syngman 69

Ri Kwang Choi, Dr 268, 269

Ri Sol Ju 286

Ri Young Kuk 196

Richards, David 214

Richardson, Bill 165

Rigoulot, Pierre
see
Kang Choi Hwan

Rinder, Mike 164

roads 25, 75, 76, 81, 103, 104, 116, 188, 227–8

see also under
Pyongyang

Romania 7, 19–20, 50–51, 60, 126, 137, 146, 155, 253, 261, 263

see also
Ceausescu, Nicolae

Ross, Captain James 28

Rusk, Dean 69

Russia/Soviet Union 28, 85

and China 124, 140–41

and Kim Il Sung 61, 63, 68–9, 70, 71, 120, 121, 124, 125

North Koreans in 110–11

see also
Khrushchev, Nikita; Stalin, Joseph

Ryonggang Hot Spa hotel 57–8, 59–60

salaries, North Korean 83–4

‘Sam’(defector) 175–80

Sandino, Augusto César 131

Sankei Shimbun
(newspaper) 289

Scarlatoiu, Greg 51, 281

Schapiro, Professor Leonard 295

Schmidt, Eric 165

Schmidt, Sophie 165

Schuhmann, Franz 259

Scientology
see
Church of Scientology

secret police
see
Bowibu

Sedillot, Jacques (Manuel Cedillo) 129, 130–32, 138

Seeger, Pete 222

Sen, Amartya 232

Seoul, South Korea 53, 70, 103, 109, 110, 112, 233

Olympics (1988) 109, 161,210

Shang Yue 65

Shaw, George Bernard 234

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: ‘Ozymandias’ 31

Sherman,
USS 28

Shimada, Professor Yoichi 255–6

Shin Sang Ok 190–93, 194–5, 200

Kidnapped by the Kingdom of Kim Jong Il
192

The Kingdom of Kim
6

Pulgasari
(film) 194

shipping 84, 162

Shrieteh, Siham 262

Shtykov, General Terentii Fomich 70, 111–12

Silcock, Terry 217–18, 219, 220, 221, 222

Sinn Féin 214–16

Slater, Christian 252

Smith, Dr Hazel 271–2

smuggling 172

see also
‘Jimmy the Gold-Smuggler’

So Kwan Hi 236

Soga, Hitomi 254–5, 257, 261, 262, 263

Sosa, Carlos Diaz 137

South, Sean 201–2

South Korea 6, 18, 28–9, 69–70, 100, 109, 112

border guards 106

Christianity 64

class system 25

defectors to 20, 27, 89, 92, 161, 174, 175–80, 213, 222, 270, 277, 288

and DMZ 106

food aid for North Korea 27

Intelligence Agency 222–3

media 53

names xi, 26

North Korean attacks on 54, 103, 108–9, 160, 290

suicide rates 6

‘Sunshine Policy’ 53, 54, 186

Soviet Union
see
Russia/Soviet Union

Spac (Albanian gulag) 122

Spanish Civil War 130

Spillane, John 222

Stalin, Joseph 41, 63, 69, 70, 123, 185

and Ceausescu 155

death 113, 119–20

demonization of 42, 124

embalming of 42

and Great Famine 234

and Kim Il Sung 3–4, 8, 29, 37, 47, 68, 111–12, 120, 121, 124

and Korean War 111–12, 113

Sochi dacha 190

Stalinism 46, 47

Stern, Professor Geoffrey 295

‘Stickies/Sticks, the’
see
IRA

Stoppard, Tom:
Night and Day
293

Suh, Dae-Sook:
Kim Il Sung 63n,
66, 67

Suharto, General 96

Sunday Times
288

Sung Hye Rang 195

‘Sunshine’ Policy 53, 54, 186

Syria 8, 289–90, 291, 292

Szalontai, Balazs 114, 120, 125, 126

Taedong river 28, 44, 74, 270

Tangun (deity) 24

Tanzer, Elvira 130, 132, 133

TB
see
tuberculosis

Team America
(film) 4–5, 183, 186–7

television, North Korean 32

Terzani, Tiziano 22, 38–9

Thatcher, Margaret, Lady 42–3

Thayer, Nate 289–90

Time
magazine 260

Times, The
14, 16

Tirana, Albania: Hoxha’s Mausoleum 21

Todd, Hugh 216–17, 219, 220

Trademark Printery, Samhwa, North Korea 223–4

triplets, birth of 268

Trombadori, Antonello 140, 141

Truman, President Harry S. 69

tuberculosis (TB) 88, 125, 271

Tumen river 85, 86, 91, 179–80

Ullim waterfall, North Korea 227–8

UNESCO World Heritage Site 126

Unhasu Orchestra 285, 286

UNICEF 237

United Nations 6, 7, 9, 72, 112, 113, 137, 239, 291

United States of America 18, 28, 29, 64

bombing of Japan (1945) 69

and brainwashing 167, 168, 169

defectors to North Korea
see
Abshier, Larry;

Dresnok, James Joseph; Jenkins, Charles

Robert; Parrish, Jerry;

and division of Korea 69, 109

food aid for North Korea 27, 239

and Korean War 112–13, 115–16, 118

nuclear threats against 2, 10, 23, 29, 83, 103, 290,
see also under
Kim Jong Un

Secret Service and ‘Superdollar Plot’ 217, 218–21, 222, 223

and South Korea 103, 106, 109, 112

Unknown Heroes
(TV series) 251

Urian, Emilia 151, 156

Urian, Izidor 11, 39, 131, 151–7, 261, 291

Valyi, Peter 125

Vargas Llosa, Mario 45

Virginian, The
(newspaper) 259

Vorobiev, Vladimir 41

Wahlstrom, Jonas 101

Wangjaesan Light Music Band 285–6

Washington Post
236–7

weather, North Korean 31–2, 35

West Sea Barrage, North Korea 73–5, 84, 212

Weston, Father Gerard 202

Wilde, Oscar:
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
136

Wonsan, North Korea 227, 245, 265, 292

Agriculture University 229–30

Children’s Camp 246–7

Woodworth, Paddy 213

Workers’ Life
(magazine) 212

World Health Organization (WHO) 271, 272

World Vision 236

Yanan group 122–3

yangban
25

Yeltsin, Boris 204

Yi Sung Yop 118–19

Yim Hwa 119

Yodok
see
Prison Camp 15

Yu Chang Sik 188

Yu Song Chol 124

Zbarsky, Boris 41

Zbarsky, Ilya 41

Zhivkov, Todor 37, 60

Zhou Enlai 147

Zo Sun Il
see
Cao de Benós, Alejandro

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Sweeney is a reporter for BBC
Panorama
who became a YouTube sensation when he lost his temper with a senior member of the Church of Scientology. Before joining the BBC in 2001, Sweeney worked for twelve years at the
Observer
, where he covered, wars and revolutions and unrest in more than sixty countries from Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya to Zimbabwe.

Over the course of his career John has won two Royal Television Society prizes, an Emmy, a Sony Gold award, the
What the Papers Say
Journalist of the Year Prize, an Amnesty International prize and the Paul Foot Award.

He is the author of eight books, including most recently
The Church of Fear: Inside The Weird World of Scientology
and his first novel,
Elephant Moon
. His hobby is falling off his bike on the way back from the pub.

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