Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 10:52:09 -0400

To: LTJohns@aol.com

Subject: Re: N. Korea flood

Dear LT Johns,

Thanks for logging onto my Home Page and your message. I am only focusing on receiving donations and with them, purchasing food and medicine which is directly provided to those in need. I have been receiving numerous other requests of all types from many people but I have no time nor inclination to go beyond this focused mission. I suggest you contact the DPRK (North Korean) UN mission in New York with your request for press coverage. I am not the proper person to address your request to as my focus is just bringing food to the hungry.

Best regards,

Bernie

>Dear Bernie,

>I'm a journalist interested in going to North Korea to write about the flood and its

>effect on the people. I can guarantee front page coverage at the newspaper I work

>for (The Herald, circulation 65,000, 26 miles north of Seattle) and I'm pretty sure

>the story would be picked up by AP. The last story I did, on Guatemala guerrillas

>from their stronghold in the jungle, was on the the front page of The Herald, ran in

>the San Francisco Examiner and I was interviewed on Seattle's national public radio

>station.

>I'm telling you all this because I know you are concerned with getting the word out

>about the North Korean situation. I am, too. But I need your help. You obviously

>have good contacts. To get the story right, I would need the kind of access and

>photos that you got.

>Can you help?

>You can respond here at my home address or at my work e-mail: johnson@Heraldnet.com

>Thanks