Part of the downside of covering international events is that you can easily lose contact with friends. It has been many weeks --- despite all his excellent photographs and even the most wonderful of videos, complete with a new apartment and a special song by a young woman --- that we have touched base with North Korea's Kim Jong-Il.
So today we try to make amends: "Here's looking at you, Dear Leader" as you look at....
Fish....
And pots....
And tomatoes....
And, um, sorry, what exactly is this?