The Hong Kong-based Kanwa Information Center says the NorKs have "established a temporary command center near the Chinese border".
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Kim Jong Il's mountain hideaway revealed
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Kim Jong Il admits failure (so far)
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'[Kim's father, Kim Il Sung] said that people should be allowed to eat white rice and meat soup, wear silk clothes and live under tiled roofs,' Kim Jong Il was quoted as saying. 'But we've so far failed to carry out this goal,' he said.
Kim Jong Il on Times Front Page
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is featured on Times Magazine Front Page. News/comedy post.
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The Secret History of Kim Jong Il
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Few people have the chance to watch a shy young man grow into a ruthless dictator—and live to talk about it. But, for one North Korean professor, Kim Jong Il is much more than the man holding his country hostage. He’s a former student.
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Kim Jong-il raises stakes with missile threat
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Just days after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of State, told North Korea not to be provocative, Kim Jong-il has wheeled out a trump card: a missile capable of striking continental America.
Read more »Mysterious halo heralds Kim's birthday in North Korea
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Happy Birthday Kim Jong Il..... not. The moon over hermit North Korea gave off a mysterious glow and citizens pledged undying loyalty to leader Kim Jong-il ahead of his birthday.
Read more »Kim son 'not interested' in power
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The eldest son of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il says he has "no interest" in succeeding his father, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.
"No one can say for sure and only father will decide," Kim Jong-nam told reporters in Beijing.
Read more »Brother-in-law stands in for ailing Kim
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The brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il has taken over the running of North Korea, stamping on dissent while the dictator recovers from a stroke.
Read more »Kim Jong-il's women banned from planning succession
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Kim Jong-il, North Korea's reclusive leader, has declared discussion of his succession off limits for three years, despite reports that the women in his life are plotting on behalf of their favourites.
Read more »Tensions — and balloons — rise in South Korea
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Park Sang Hak, a North Korean defector, launches balloons bound for his homeland. They carry bags of leaflets accusing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il of being a drinker of pricey wine, a seducer of other men's wives, a murderer, a slaveholder, a dictator and "the devil."
Read more »North Korea's Kim goes to the zoo
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, believed to have suffered a debilitating stroke earlier this year, has visited Pyongyang zoo
Read more »Who Will Rule North Korea After Kim?
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Kim Jong Il has gone missing. . Despite newly released photos of the "Dear Leader," the rumors abound in his starving nation that he is unfit to govern. Is this the end of the regime or will one of his relatives take over?
Read more »Chinese troops line up against North Korea
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Military escalation attributed to worries over Kim Jong-Il's failing health.
China's People's Liberation Army has moved as many as 100,000 troops to its border with North Korea, ostensibly to block refugees from fleeing into China in the event of the death of Kim Jong-II
North Korea reports another public appearance for Kim
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North Korea reported Sunday that its leader Kim Jong-Il has made another public appearance in an apparent attempt to quell continuing rumours over his health.
Read more »Now in-law calls shots in N Korea
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North Korea is being run by the brother-in-law of leader Kim Jong Il, who has been seriously ill for three months
Read more »New photos of Kim Jong Il
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NORTH Korea released a photograph Sunday showing leader Kim Jong Il smiling and watching a football match - the latest apparent attempt to calm intense speculation over the health of the country's absolute ruler.
Read more »Paris brain surgeon 'treated' Kim Jong-il
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Japan's Fuji Television showed footage from Paris of a man it identified as Kim Jong-Nam, the eldest son of the North Korean leader.
"He is believed to have met with a French brain surgeon, who later departed from Paris for Pyongyang under North Korean escort," the network said
Read more »Get a Haircut says Kim Jong-Il
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, making his presence felt amid speculation about his health, has lashed out at football players sporting long hair, a Japanese newspaper said Monday.
The bouffant-haired dictator was outraged at the hairdos while watching a university match and ordered all men to go clean-cut
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Kim Jong Il is dead… long live Kim Jong Il!
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Waseda University professor Toshimitsu Shigemura claims in this week’s "Shukan Gendai" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il passed away in the fall of 2003 and has been replaced by a body double.
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