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    Foreign Policy: Cold Wars
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    The Hermit Kingdom regularly fires off ballistic missiles, enraging and scaring the interested parties, and has conducted nuclear tests to widespread international condemnation. And Barack Obama's administration has had no more luck than its...

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    Foreign Policy: Planning For A Life After Kim
    NPR 1 month ago

    North Korea, where death is far more certain than taxes, Kim Jong Il's eventual departure from this world carries secular consequences. As the ailing dictator celebrates his 69th birthday (or 68th, his age is disputed) — Feb. 16 is one of the country's...

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    N. Korea's Kim Said To Pledge Nuclear Disarmament
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    Korean leader Kim Jong Il reiterated his country's pledge to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula when he met a senior Chinese envoy, Beijing's official news agency reported Tuesday. "The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the...

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    North Korea Says It Will Free American Missionary
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    Korea announced Friday that it will free an American missionary detained for illegally crossing its border on Christmas Day. Robert Park slipped across the frozen Tumen River into the North from China carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim...

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    N. Korea: American Detained For Crossing Border
    NPR 2 months ago

    Jo Sung-rae of the Seoul-based activist group Pax Koreana said Tuesday that North Korean border guards apparently detained the missionary as soon as he walked into the communist nation. Park was carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong...

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    Activist: N Korea apparently detains US missionary
    Southern California Public Radio 2 months ago

    Pyongyang waited four days before announcing on March 21 that they had been detained. Park's letter to Kim Jong Il, one of two he was carrying, asked that he open the North's borders to humanitarian assistance and put an end to political prison camps. ...

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    North Korea Executes Official After Currency Grab Sparks Unrest
    Business Week 1 hour ago

    Free North Korea Radio, run by North Korean defectors in Seoul, yesterday reported widespread rumors of the execution. The reported execution is the latest sign of efforts by Kim Jong Il’s government to appease the country’s people after the currency... Full Article at Business Week

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    North Korean leader may not survive past '13: senior U.S. envoy
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    North Korean leader may not survive past '13: senior U.S. envoy

    It cited no specific evidence for the estimate. The report comes amid speculation that the autocratic Kim is preparing to hand power over to a son. Kim Jong Il is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, and has appeared noticeably gaunt in public... Full Article at China Post

  3. Pak Nam-gi executed over currency reform
    North Korea Economy Watch 1 hour ago

    “All the blame has been poured on Pak after the currency reform failure exacerbated public sentiment and had a bad effect” on leader Kim Jong-il’s plan to hand power over to his third son Kim Jong-un, one source told Yonhap on condition of anonymity. ... Full Article at North Korea Economy Watch

  4. DPRK revises law on Rason zone and enacts law on coal to attract foreign investment
    North Korea Economy Watch 2 hours ago

    It is also possible that the regime is eyeing the development of the region as a tool to solidify the transfer of power to yet a third Kim. In December, 2009, after designating the special economic and trade zone, Kim Jong Il traveled to ‘Rason City’... Full Article at North Korea Economy Watch

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    Idol Results Show
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    Ugh. Paige was good. I don't get the hype at all with this dude. I just said the same thing to my hub about Duh-Whys Kim Jong and TUrban should both be in the bottom. MrsEvans had to re-boot; she wanted to say she liked TUrban better than Kim Jong Il.... Full Article at Miami Herald

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  1. When foreign currency is earned, such resources are first and foremost used to preserve the military-industrial complex, and to maintain the 'governance funds' needed to keep the royal palace economy going
    – Kim Jong-il SOURCE: Radio Free Asia 1 month ago
  2. Elect Stalin/Hitler/Kim Jong Il! You’ll never look back! I have syphilis. Let’s have sex.
    SOURCE: Stop The ACLU 3 days ago
  3. Foreign currency is badly needed for the ‘people’s economy’ to recover, but Kim Jong Il’s ‘royal court economy’ holds the monopoly over foreign exchange transactions and reserves
    – Kim Jong-il SOURCE: Radio Free Asia 1 month ago
  4. We need to understand that [Kim Jong-Il] is a thug, and treat him like a thug
    SOURCE: American Spectator 5 days ago
  5. The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the six-party talks is very important
    – Kim Jong-il SOURCE: NPR 1 month ago

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