A moving account of the differences between the two halves of this divided country. Mr. Kim: "We are, for good or bad,... an exceptionally homogeneous nation... We became a united single state in the 7th century and remained one until we became divided in 1945. So the longing for unification was so much more intense, the anguish of having to live under conditions of division was so much deeper. When we saw the Berlin Wall come down and the Germans become reunited ... we were euphoric. We said, 'Oh, if this could happen to the Germans we should be able to expect it for ourselves.'"... "Pyongyang city is their showcase... It's a totally artificial thing, it's no living organism ... But when you move out of Pyongyang and go into villages and towns where foreigners are not normally allowed to go, then you begin to see what life conditions are like. And there it's not progress, it's deterioration."