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Carter, Former World Leaders in N. Korea for Talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former President Jimmy Carter and other past world leaders were hoping to meet with North Korea's ruler as they began a three-day mission Tuesday to discuss dangerous food shortages and stalled nuclear disarmament talks. Children presented flowers to Carter, former Finnish President Martti...

NKorea Honors 'Eternal President' on His Birthday

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Visitors paying their respects at the memorial palace housing the body of North Korea's late founder patiently waited through security checks and scans along a winding corridor. Their shoes were dusted and disinfected before they stepped through a fierce wind tunnel to sweep away any remaining...

Balloons From South Korea Inform North of Middle East Uprisings

South Korea is sending balloon messages into North Korean airspace about the anti-government protests in the Middle East, ramping up the psychological warfare against Kim Jong Il's infamously hermetic regime. The balloons tell of the popular uprisings in Egypt and Libya half a world away from the Korean Peninsula and...

As North Koreans Starve, Kim Jong Il Celebrates Birthday in Style

They're hungry, impoverished and struggling to recover from a series of natural disasters. But North Koreans have today been ordered to forget about their worries and celebrate Kim Jong Il's birthday. The dictator's 69th birthday -- or 70th, if you look at Russian records -- is being marked with a week of extravagant...

North, South Korea Talk at DMZ to Ease Tensions

SEOUL, South Korea -- Military officers from North and South Korea held talks inside the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday in the rivals' first official dialogue since the North's deadly artillery barrage of a South Korean island in November. Tensions on the divided peninsula rose sharply following the attack,...

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05/30/12 N.Korea's New Year's Statement Stresses Continuity Source: Chosun Ilbo The traditional joint New Years editorial of North Korea's official papers was mostly devoted to stressing dead leader Kim Jong-il's legacy and his "songun" or military-first doctrine, as if to reassure everyone that nothing will change now that his 20-something son Kim Jong-un has taken over.
05/30/12 N.K. calls itself ï¼nuclear-armed stateï¼ in revised... Source: The Korea Herald North Korea calls itself a "nuclear-armed state" in its recently revised constitution, according to its full text confirmed on Wednesday in the North's "Naenara" web site.
05/10/12 N.Korea in Uproar Over 'Insult' to Leaders Source: Chosun Ilbo North Korea is in a tizzy about a South Korean army unit in Incheon that reportedly scrawled threatening slogans on portraits of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il.
05/08/12 How Kim's grandfather 'betrayed' N Korea Source: Canada.com - Canada The grandfather of North Korea's leader worked as a collaborator with Japanese soldiers who were hunting Kim Il-sung during the Second World War, according to documents unearthed in Tokyo.
05/04/12 Transmissions from a Lone Star: Watching Kim Jong-un Source: RIA Novosti - Russia What would it be like to be told at age 27 that for the next four decades you were going to have to kill, starve and oppress millions of people if you wanted to stay alive?

Background on kim jong il

Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim; 16 February 1941; official biography claims 1942 – 17 December 2011) was the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK Kim Il-sung following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world.

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