Pyeongyang

Our unit advanced all the way to Pyeongyang, the capital of North Korea.

Average North Koreans had little time for the news except maybe those enjoying cushy jobs in Pyeongyang.

Pyeongyang, the leading urban center in the Pyeongan Province, is the capital of North Korea and Nampo serves as the gateway port to Pyeongyang.

Of course, it’s fun to laugh and poke fun at people like Kim Jong-Un and his merry band of boneheads. But at the end of the day, he is a real dictator doing some shady things we often turn a blind eye to, probably because no one has yet discovered massive oil deposits outside the capital of Pyeongyang.

The two sides are in a face-saving battle. Pyeongyang is insisting the U.S. recognize the joint communique issued in October 2000 and Washington continues to ignore it.

Although relations between the two adversaries were frayed on occasion, Pyeongyang and Washington were able to negotiate and reach a compromise on the key issues that divided them.

With regards to North Korean special envoy Choi Ryong-hae’s visit to China last month, the Global Times, one of China’s official news media said, “No matter what the purpose of the trip is, Beijing has to put pressure on Pyeongyang so that it can control its own actions.”