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I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982, at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he started working in a sushi restaurant in Pyongyang. In…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)

inside the city at the heart of Syria's rebellion

On Thursday morning, I woke up in Homs, the city labelled by the international media as the "capital of the Syrian revolution".Homs has been in more or less open revolt since at least April, but in…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3064 words)
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