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.
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Kim Jong-il's women banned from planning succession
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North Korea Gets 3G network... Cell phones still banned
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It appears that the entire $400 million network was built for the exclusive use of a few hundred elites in the country.
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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 »The Life of Kim Jong Il - SlideShow
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I have never seen the Family Portrait - Photo 2...A pictorial look at the North Korean leader through the years
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 »Last train to Kaesong as Korean relations cool
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"A South Korean freight train chugged its way across the heavily fortified border into North Korea yesterday for what may be its last run.
The North has put an end to the rail link that had raised hopes of reconciliation between the Cold War foes, accusing Seoul of seeking a "confrontational" policy toward it.
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 »North Korea Holds Annual Massive Executions in Prisoner Camps
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According to a group of defectors, prison camps in North Korea include 300,000 people and each year authorities perform mass executions of disobedient prisoners. In addition, An Myong-Chul, 40, who is a former prisoner camp guard, said that torture and sexual violence often take place at the camps.
Read more »N.Korea in the dark
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The visiting South Koreans were treated to a performance by artistically gifted students but had to wait to applaud because the lights went out at the end of the show in an unheated hall, leaving them wondering if the darkness was part of the act.
Read more »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 »Escapee of North Korea's brutal prison camp tells his horrifying story
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The only escapee of North Korea's most brutal prison camp has lived to tell us a story of unspeakable horror. Starved of food and common humanity, Shin proves that gulags are still a tragic reality.
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Abducted woman discovered alive family clain
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A Japanese woman allegedly abducted by North Korean agents more than 30 years ago is alive and could soon be allowed to meet her family, her brother says.
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The Eerie Amusement Parks of North Korea
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It turns out there are three funfairs in Pyongyang in various states of disrepair, the largest being the Kaeson Youth Park. Opened in 1984, it was built to project an image of progress and the ingenuity of its citizens.
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'NK Arranging Meeting of Japanese Abductee, Family'
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The Japanese media are reporting that a North Korean official is arranging a meeting between a Japanese abductee in the North and her family in Japan.
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 »North Korea Denounces Spy Flights
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Do you know that it is quite a long way from Guam to Pyongyang - what would you do to pass the time?..do they have any tellys on those Big Birds?...Once I met a female B-52 comms officer and she told me that she just sat in the back and knitted and occasionally changed circuit boards...rem
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
Read more »North Korea cuts deal to exit blacklist
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The United States has told Japan it will remove North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring nations by the end of the month...
Read more »North Korea is developing a Nuclear warhead according to Seoul
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While we turn to our own problem North Korea is making a nuke in its own backyard.
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US envoy's visit did not stop NKorea nuclear work
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I am unsurprised - China could fix this in the blink of an eye..
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Read more »Jaw-jaw over North Korea
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The international consequences of North Korea, and all the talk about it....
Read more »US defector on life in North Korea - Joe Dresnok -- 09 September 2008
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I was going to post a section of a documentary about children begging on the China/North Korea Border from 2006..but I still find it very harrowing to watch.
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Read more »Who Would Succeed Kim Jong Il?
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Kim Jong's ill
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North Korea’s strange brew - Pyongyang Beer
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and his old man bought a Swiss Watch factory once as well.
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Read more »Japan to lift North Korea sanctions despite disarmament suspension... Payback?
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Tokyo would lift sanctions against North Korea, provided it resumes investigations into the abduction of Japanese citizens and despite Pyongyang reneging on a pledge to disable its nuclear facilities, Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura said Friday.
Could this be payback to the U.S. for their recent softening up to the NORKS without resolution of the Japanese abduction issue?
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Kim is 'dead', long live his double
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It's been a while since I heard a "So-and-so head of state really died X years ago and was replaced by a double" story. Here's one from a Waseda University professor of all people, who says Kim Jong Il is no more.
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