A community portal about Kim Jong-il with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Kim Jong-il is the leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a position he has held since 1994. Officially he is the Chairman of the...
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A community portal about Kim Jong-il with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Kim Jong-il is the leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a position he has held since 1994. Officially he is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, the founder of the Democratic People's Republic, who died in 1994.
SEOUL (Reuters) - The one certainty in unpredictable North Korea is that if the state detonates a nuclear device or leader Kim Jong-il visits a duck farm, Ri Chun-hee will be on TV boasting about the amazing accomplishment. Ri is the forceful grandmother speaking with the authority of the state as the main newscaster for North Korea's only TV channel. Her face is one of the few broadcast abroad and her stentorian reports thunder across airwaves from the land where leader Kim rarely speaks. Ri, born in 1943, is an actress turned newscaster who first took to the air in 1971 when the North's ...
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Leader Kim Jong-Il has six special luxury trains at his disposal for travel around North Korea plus 19 stations built for his exclusive use, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday. The trains with a total of 90 carriages are armoured and contain conference rooms, an audience chamber and bedrooms, Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing information from US and South Korean intelligence authorities. It was not possible to confirm the report. But Kim is said to have a fear of flying and to prefer rail travel at home and abroad. He travelled by train on his last known trip to China in January 2006. Satellite ...
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Every now and then I browse the North Korean news website just for the sheer weirdness of it - here's a sample from this morning: Double-Cropping Done by Kim Jong Il Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- It was on a Sunday of June, Juche 53 (1964). An official who visited the residence of General Secretary Kim Jong Il was perplexed by the unimaginable scenery of the garden. There grew thick trees of economic value in the garden and grain crops, industrial crops, vegetables as well as fodder grass in patches. Sowing soybean as the second crop after wheat in a patch, Kim Jong Il ...
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Browse > Home / Angry Rants / North Korean Regime Should Be Taken Out. As soon as possible November 17, 2009 R.F.Wilson writes: So, how come every time North Korea tells the whole world to go to hell the world does not respond in kind? The regime in Pyonyang conducts nuclear tests and test fires missiles and no one does anything about it? The commies are building their nukes and the West watches them without interfering. Every time the Nort Korean regime shows the world two fingers world leaders come up with pathetic words of condemnation, as if anyone in Pyongyang is listening or ...
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Kim Jong-Il Kim Jong-Il , the notorious dictator of North Korea. The one man who can grant civil rights to millions of humans, as well as withhold them. Why is the freedom of expression (or lack thereof) so important to Kim Jong-Il? It’s all about maintaining the image and status of the leaders of North Korea, especially Kim Jong-Il. To the North Korean people, Kim Jong-Il is a god with powers to control the weather. Almost everything about his life is similar to the Bible . It is said (by the government of course) that there were flashes of lightning and thunder and rainbows ...
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Kim Jong-ils mistress may have new lover November 23, 2009 A one-time partner of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may have married another man and left her job as Kims secretary, South Korean intelligence sources said. Sources told the JoongAng Ilbo that they have received tips that Kim Ok has married an official from the ruling Workers Party. Were analyzing intelligence that Kim Ok, who had been Kim Jong-ils personal secretary, has tied...
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has inspected the nation's security force headquarters, state media said on Sunday, in what Seoul media say is a bid to further tighten his control on society. T...
A former university professor, who fled to China, warns: "The government of Hu Jintao has done everything to provoke a nuclear strike by Kim Jong-il. Our people are afraid of dying slaves to the empir...
n.Korea Ends Experiment with TV Commercials North Korea stopped TV commercials in late August, less than two months after they started to be shown in July. A Unification Ministry official on Sunday said occasional advertising of goods on [North] Korean Central TV started July 2 with a commercial for Taedonggang Beer but stopped on Aug. 29. Quoting a North Korea source, the Yonhap news agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il fired...
SEOUL (Reuters) - The one certainty in unpredictable North Korea is that if the state detonates a nuclear device or leader Kim Jong-il visits a duck farm, Ri Chun-hee will be on TV boasting about the amazing accomplishment.
U.S. at Work on Strangling Kim Jong-il's Cash Flow The U.S. envoy charged with UN sanctions, Philip Goldberg, is still trying to block North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's cash flow, even as Washington has agreed to talks with Pyongyang aimed at persuading it to return to nuclear negotiations. North Korea invited U.S. North Korea envoy Stephen Bosworth on Aug. 4, when former U.S. president Bill Clinton was in Pyongyang to win the release of two...
Why it's sane for Kim Jong-il to be crazy Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:28am EDT By Andrew Marshall, Asia Political Risk Correspondent - Analysis SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For those who see North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as a dangerous lunatic prepared to risk the annihilation of his regime by launching a devastating attack on his neighbors, there is no shortage of supporting evidence. He uses platform shoes and bouffant hair to appear taller. His official...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il -- known for shunning air travel — has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and hi-tech communication facilities, a South Korean...
North Korean soldiers applaud during a visit of their leader Kim Jong-il at the 1224 military unit at an undisclosed place in North Korea, in this undated picture released on November 9, 2009 by North Korea's official news agency KCNA. KCNA did not ...