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So Egan turned his restaurant, Cubby’s, into his own version of Camp David. Between ball games, fishing trips, and heaping plates of pork ribs, he advised deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Han Song Ryol, and other North Koreans during tumultuous years that saw the death of Kim Il-Sung and the rise of Kim Jong-Il, false starts toward peace during the Clinton administration, the Bush “Axis of Evil” era, and North Korea’s successful test of a nuclear weapon in 2006. All the while, Egan informed for the FBI, vexed the White House with his meddling, chaperoned the communist nation’s athletes on hilarious adventures, and nearly rescued a captured U.S. Navy vessel---all in the interest of promoting peace.</em><p/> <p>November 23, 1992. Washington politicos were trying to clear a path for normalized relations with the government of Vietnam, almost twenty years after the end of the war there. They needed a little help, and I jumped at the chance. How often does a guy from Hackensack have the ear of the U.S. Congress?<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/eating-with-the-enemy/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"> <div class="twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/eating-with-the-enemy/" data-text="Just read Eating With The Enemy by Robert Egan">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <div class="facebook"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F12%2Feating-with-the-enemy%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:110px; height:20px;"></iframe></div> <div class="google"><g:plusone size="medium" href="http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/eating-with-the-enemy/"></g:plusone></div> </dd>  </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/north-korea/" title="View all posts in North Korea" rel="category tag">North Korea</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/the-first-communist-hereditary-succession-kim-il-sung-to-kim-jong-il/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042im_/http://www.commandposts.com//wp-content/files_mf/underthelovingcareofthefatherlyleaderbybradleykmartincrop.jpg?w=182&hash=de65fe717e7c3a4154a299e6563a6db5" alt="" title="Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin"/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/the-first-communist-hereditary-succession-kim-il-sung-to-kim-jong-il/">The First Communist Hereditary Succession: Kim Il-Sung to Kim Jong-Il</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/author/bradley-k-martin/" title="Posts by Bradley K. Martin">Bradley K. Martin</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/">December</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/12/20/">20</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> <br/>Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/tag/kim-il-sung/" rel="tag">Kim Il Sung</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035042/http://www.commandposts.com/tag/kim-jong-il/" rel="tag">Kim Jong Il</a></dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>When I asked what the country would do after the death of the president, a party member replied: “If he dies—I mean, when he dies—we’ll find another leader.” Kim Il-sung’s choice for the job was his son, Kim Jong-il, then a chubby thirty-seven and running the secretariat of the Workers’ Party. The younger Kim had disappeared from the public view in the late 1970s. 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