South Koreans are left wondering: Are we better off than we were a week ago?
SEOUL, South Korea - South Koreans of a certain generation remember a hit children's animation from 1978, featuring as its hero a Tarzan-like boy who battles an army of North Korean soldiers, depicted as packs of rabid wolves.
By the end of the anti-communist movie, through the courageous feat of the protagonist Ttoli, the corpulent villain "Red Marshal," who engorges himself while exploiting his own impoverished people, is unmasked and shown for his true self. As it turns out, the villain - unmistakably modeled after North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung - was a pig.
That was then. In recent days, people in South Korea
