Saturday, May 27, 2006

North and South

Pyongyang, North Korea — With a smile and strong hands, Korean-American taekwondo grandmaster Woo Jin Jung shatters pine boards in hopes of breaking another solid barrier the 53 years of division between North and South on the Korean peninsula.

No one is immune to his unusual charms.

In this normally tightly regimented city, Jung even convinced the prim North Korean announcer, wearing a bright green hanbok dress, to chop a board in two for the crowd watching his demonstration.

"Female or male, old people and young, black or white, it doesn't matter we're just all wishing for unification," Jung, 64, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, told the audience.

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