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Kim Jong-il

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... [more]

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.

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Kim Jong-Il has six personal trains: report

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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 ... Read Full Story

Kim Jong Il visits new power plant

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PYONGYANG, North Korea, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has visited a new power plant and a farm in the south of the country, official media reported Saturday. The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim went to North Korea's South Hamgyeong Province where he congratulated workers who took part in the building of a new power station, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. On the same visit -- the date of which wasn't specified -- Kim was also shown urging farmers to use new technologies to help tackle the North's continuing food shortages, Yonhap reported. KCNA said Kim ... Read Full Story

North Korea calls for direct talks with U.S.: report

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's Foreign Ministry called on Monday for direct talks with its long-time foe, the United States, and said it was ready to return to stalled six-country nuclear disarmament negotiations. Last month, leader Kim Jong-il said he was ready to consider a return to the nuclear talks his state once declared dead provided it had direct discussions with Washington. The Foreign Ministry spokesman's comments were the strongest yet on the secretive state's intention for resuming dialogue. "The conclusion we have reached is that the direct parties, which are the North and the United States, must first sit down and find a ... Read Full Story

North Korea behind cyber attacks: South's spy chief

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's communications ministry was behind a series of cyber attacks against South Korean and U.S. websites in July, the South's spy chief was quoted Friday as saying. Dozens of major U.S. and South Korean government and business sites were slowed or disabled with traffic generated by malicious software planted on personal computers unknown to their users. South Korean officials said at the time that North Korea was a prime suspect. "The attacks on Korean and U.S. Internet sites were traced back to circuits originating in China," the South's spy chief Won Sei-hoon was quoted as telling a closed-door parliamentary committee ... Read Full Story

North Korea hereditary succession won't work: defector

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korean efforts to install one of ailing leader Kim Jong-il's sons as a hereditary successor are likely to fail, a senior defector from the communist country said on Tuesday. Kim Kwang-jin, a former state insurance executive who helped unveil widespread damage claims fraud by Pyongyang, said Kim's relative recovery from an apparent 2008 stroke does not alter the fact that the era of Kim rule is fading. "Fragile, worsening health, long drawn-out economic collapse and growing political instability in North Korea indicate that the Kim Jong-il regime is drawing to an end," Kim told a panel at a Washington thinktank. ... Read Full Story
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Kim Jong-il Sacks Confidant Over TV Ads
By Lee Tae-hoon Staff Reporter North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has fired the reclusive regime's top broadcaster for airing television commercials that promote its beer and other local products, so...  
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TV boss sacked as North Korea's Kim Jong-il bans ads
STATE television in communist North Korea has abandoned capitalist-style commercials after leader Kim Jong-il expressed his anger, a news report said. Yonhap news agency quoted informed sources as saying that Kim was furious when he saw the ...  
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North Korea judges TV ads a step too far
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il has fired his top TV official after state television aired a series of advertisements which apparently represented too much capitalist influence, a news report said yesterday. Since early July, the North's state TV ...  
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Kim Jong-il Doesn't Like TV Commercials, Either « North Korea ...
Kim Jong-il Doesn't Like TV Commercials, Either. Jump to Comments. Cha Sung-su, Chair of the DPRK Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee, was recently sacked from his position. Yonhap reports that Mr. Cha, the State's executive ...  
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North Korean army cashes in on exports to China
SEOUL: North Korea's military has grabbed nearly complete command of the state-run economy and staked out a lucrative trade in mineral sales to China to make money for its supreme commander, Kim Jong-il.  
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Kim Jong-Il calls for scientific farming to increase crop production
PYONGYANG, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong-Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has called for scientific farming to increase crop production to solve a current food shortag...  
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Lee vows no unproductive summit with Kim Jong-il
President Lee Myung-bak reiterated his position yesterday that he has no intention to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il just for the mere sake of having an inter-Korean summit.  
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Passing the buck on North Korea
SEOUL - From his seat of power in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-il waves a lordly hand. Here comes former United States president Bill Clinton with his retinue, begging for the favor of an audience. And there's Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, beseeching the Dear ...  
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Kim Jong-Il backed into his own corner
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Did President Clinton meet N. Korea's Kim Jong-il or his look-alike?
The North Korean leader may be using look-alikes to hide his poor health. One analyst says that when President Clinton visited in August, he met with an actor, not Kim Jong-il. Seoul, South Korea - Will the real Kim Jong-il please stand up? A number of analysts here are convinced that not all the photos being released of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, are really photos of Kim Jong-il. Instead, they say, a look-alike has been standing in...  
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