Staff writer
As television captures smiling women parading down Pyongyang's streets calling on the North Korean public to go to the polls for the national assembly election Sunday, Lee Young Hwa of Osaka is upset over his failed attempt to run against Kim Jong Il in his constituency.
Osaka-born Lee, a North Korean resident of Japan and associate professor at Kansai University, decided late last month to compete as a candidate against Kim, the reclusive nation's de facto leader who is running for a seat on the Supreme People's Assembly from constituency No. 666.