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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 'nuclear-armed state' 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?

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