North Korea
Sir,—The author of “Inside North Korea” (“The Press,” July 17, 1985) says Pyongyang — rebuilt after total American bombing — was “strikingly beautiful.” He mentions green parks, modern housing, museums, theatres, wide boulevards, minimal traffic (people using underground railway), absence of slums and pollution, the Children’s Palace for volunteers (2000 children a day). I admired it myself — classes in boxing, gymnastics, ballet, mechanics. I saw nursing classes (had my blood pressure taken by a girl of 12), chemistry, physics, engineering, music. Apartments, your author says, “are infinitely roomier, cleaner and better equipped than some of the slum dwellings in South Korea’s Seoul” and cost $3.20 a month. Add 11-year universal free education, a complete health service, price stability (witnessed by an exchange rate of 1.50 Northern won per U.S. dollar, compared to South Korean wop), no
unemployment. One wonders, if Kim II Sung’s son should succeed him, why should we criticise the ensuing stability?—Yours etc., W. ROSENBERG. July 20, 1985.
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