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.
North Korea Friday hailed efforts to build a strong socialist economy but kept silent about its shock currency revaluation which has reportedly sparked fury and frustration. "Today the Korean people, showing their mental power of self-regeneration and fighting against hardships, are making strenuous efforts to build a strong, prosperous and powerful socialist nation," the official Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary. It painted a rosy picture of the economy's future, underlining... Read Full Story
A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal Thursday to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial. The group is to fly to Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, lead activist Ha Tae-keung told reporters in Seoul. "Our aim is to get the arrest warrant on Kim Jong Il to be... Read Full Story
Kim Jong-il is likely not too pleased with his countries recent draw in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Not only does the North Korean squad have to play against the likes of Brazil , but throw in the Ivory Coast and Portugal with the final spot just to add insult to injury.
Kim Jong-il is not only displeased with the result… I am sure right now he is inviting Charlize Theron to a nice dinner at his underground lair filled with glass water tanks full of starved sharks with laser... Read Full Story
North Korea leader Kim Jong-Il took his youngest son Kim Jong-Un on a "field guidance" trip as he continued to groom him as his chosen successor, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday. The Mainichi Shumbun said it had obtained an official North Korean "internal document" which described a visit by the father and son to a provincial agricultural university earlier this year. Kim Jong-Il and his late father, North Korea founder Kim Il-Sung, used "field guidance" trips to military units... Read Full Story
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (UPI) --
A South Korean human rights group says they want North Korean leader Kim Jong Il tried for massive and systematic human rights abuses.
The Anti-human Crime Investigation Committee, acting on behalf of 150 North Korean refugees, is to fly to The Hague in the Netherlands next week. The group will file a petition with the International Criminal Court asking it to determine whether the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
said lead activist Young Howard.
The U.S... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Kim Jong Il Dead: Kim Jong Il Dead latest news about, South Korea’s Unification Ministry dismissed rumors Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been attacked and killed, which prompted financial markets to slide briefly in what one analyst said was a reflection of fragile sentiment.
“That’s the first I’ve heard of this,” ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said when asked about rumors Kim was dead. “I haven’t heard anything about it.”
Kim is suspected to have suffered a stroke... Read Full Story
Move restricts amount of old bills that can be traded for new, wipes out personal savings TOKYO -- Chaos reportedly erupted in North Korea on Tuesday after the government of Kim Jong Il revalued the country's currency, sharply restricting the amount of old bills that could be traded for new and wiping out personal savings. The revaluation and exchange limits triggered panic and anger, particularly among market traders with substantial hoards of old North Korean won -- much of which has... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
