Beckham incurs wrath of North Korea's Kim-Jong II
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
David Beckham has incurred the wrath of North Korean leader Kim-Jong II after posing with freed American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
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Clinton briefs NSC on North Korea trip
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Former President Bill Clinton has briefed national security officials on his meeting with Korean leader Kim Jong II, the White House said Thursday. Clinton, who spoke to the officials by phone, is to provide a more detailed account to President Barack Obama, but no meeting had been scheduled, spokesman Robert Gibbs said. There were some communications between the former...
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Clinton saves the day?
Militant Ginger (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Say what you want about Bill Clinton, but today he's a damn hero. Flying off to North Korea - pandering to the enemy, as some Republicans declared - paid off. Two American journalists, held under espionage charges by the regime of Kim Jong II, were pardoned from their twelve-year sentence and are flying back with the former President this very evening. That the two journalists were held under false...
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World’s Famous Leaders In Youth
Fresh Pics (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
You can see what famous politicians and dictators looked like in their youth and what they became when they grew up. Tony Blair George W. Bush Fidel Castro Che Guevara Jacques Chirac Winston Churchill Ghandi Adolph Hitler John F. Kennedy Khomeini Kim Jong II King Fahd Nelson Mandela Chairman Mao Vladimir Putin Ronald Reagan Saddam Hussein Joseph Stalin Yassir Arafat
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N. Korean Leader Sends His Condolences After Suicide
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
In a one-sentence message addressed to former President Roh Moo-hyun ’s family, Kim Jong-il expressed “profound condolences to widow Kwon Ryang-suk and his bereaved family.”
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Michael Roston: After the nuke test, the US and North Korea should keep talking
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
Just in time for the stock markets to open in Asia, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea conducted another nuclear weapons test, according to Reuters. Much noise...
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NKorea's Kim expresses condolence over Roh's death
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
North Korea's state media says that leader Kim Jong Il has expressed condolence to the family of late South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
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NKorea's Kim expresses condolence over Roh's death
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
North Korea's state media says that leader Kim Jong Il has expressed condolence to the family of late South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
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NKorea's Kim expresses condolence over Roh's death
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
North Korea's state media says that leader Kim Jong Il has expressed condolence to the family of late South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
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N. Korea Seems to Plan Kim Succession
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Kim Jong Il has initiated leadership changes in which his brother-in-law and third son are emerging as central players in a new power structure, U.S. officials say.
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Kim Jong-il shifts to plan B
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
Frustrated and feeling the Barack Obama administration has continued the "hostile" policies of its predecessors, Pyongyang's latest threats are signs of its shift to "plan B". Abandoning hopes of peace through rapprochement, this envisions a military-first policy that will lead the nation to might and prosperity by 2012. - Kim Myong Chol (May 20,'09)
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Pyongyang chokes on sweet capitalism
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
The greatest threat to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il doesn't come from the United States or power-hungry generals in Pyongyang. It comes in the form of a South Korean snack called Choco Pie, which North Korean workers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex are salivating over. - Donald Kirk (May 20,'09)
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I Guess You Had To Be There: The Barack Obama Celebrity Roast…by Iowahawk
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
Big Hollywood/Breitbart Announcer Live! From the fabulous Turtle Bay Ballroom at United Nations Headquarters, it’s the Rat Pack of Evil All-Star International Celebrity Roast of President Barack Obama! (orchestra fanfare: ‘Make ‘Em Laugh’) With Pyongyang funnyman Kim Jong-Il! Borscht Belt headliner Vlady Putin! Queen of Mean Liz Windsor! Saudi Sheik of Schtick King Abdullah!...
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Kim Jong-il Goes All Whiny Child On Sanction
Pirate's Cove (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Perhaps Obama should just treat North Korea as a rambunctious kid that needs a good swat on the behind and sent to bed with no supper North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear test and more ballistic missile tests if the U.N. Security Council doesn’t withdraw its condemnation of Pyongyang’s rocket launch earlier this month, the [...]
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Parental love versus Kim Jong-il
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 04/27/2009
Faded snapshots and a turtle-shell comb are all Shigeru and Sakie Yokota have to remind them of their daughter, Megumi, who as a 13-year-old schoolgirl was among 17 Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s. The parents' crusade against the North since has taken a heavy emotional toll. - Kosuke Takahashi (Apr 27,'09)
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A Stand-In for Kim Jong-Il?
mirabeau | 09/10/2008
Popping up again in Japan, the rumor that North Korea’s leader is being replaced by a double has been doing the rounds ever since the communist nation was founded. A specialist in North Korea at Waseda university in Japan and a former correspondent in Seoul for the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun , Japanese academic Toshimitsu Shigemura has just published a book entitled “The True Nature of Kim Jong-il”