PYONGYANG • Anti-American posters and banners are commonplace in housing estates in Pyongyang, with North Koreans being taught all their lives to resist what the state media calls the American imperialists.
But North Koreans whom The Sunday Times spoke to during a rare visit to the reclusive country this month, did not see any contradiction when their leader Kim Jong Un met United States President Donald Trump in Singapore.
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