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North Korea 'Kim Jong Il' Birthday Tours To Open: Tour Agency
A tour operator said it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic.
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Meet Black Venus - The South Korean Spy Who Met Kim Jong Il
Before meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Southern spy "Black Venus" was told to stay up late, shower, and dress neatly. He also hid a micro recorder in his penis.
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Sea Change In Korean Relations? Not At This Beachside Villa
On a cliff topped with pine trees and battered by icy waves, a stone villa stands at a cross-roads of Korean history, one that local officials hope can become a place of reconciliation.
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Would North Korea Have Abducted An American In 2004 - To Teach Kim English?
Even by the standards of strange tales that come out of North Korea, this one is particularly bizarre.
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Bomb Test 'Self-Defensive Step' Against 'Hostile' US Policy: Kim Jong Un
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country conducted a hydrogen bomb test as a self-defensive step against a US threat of nuclear war and had a sovereign right to do so without being criticised, state news agency KCNA reported today.
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In South Korea, a Town of Kims and An Unusual Shared History
Many of his students are Kims. So are his fellow teachers, an elementary school alumnus and the owners of restaurants and pubs that he patronizes in his small farming village. Lots of Kims in his neighborhood, too. Such is everyday life for Kim Sun Won, who, obviously, is a Kim too.
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Foreign Doctors, Military Guards: Bespoke Care for North Korea's Kims
In 1993, French neurosurgeon Francois-Xavier Roux received a phone call in Paris from an unidentified North Korean official. The then leader-in-waiting, Kim Jong Il, had suffered a head injury from a horse-riding accident and they wanted his advice.
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Mandatory Kim Jong Un haircuts a baldfaced lie?
Have all male university students in North Korea been ordered to get haircuts like their leader, Kim Jong Un? The Internet certainly says so.
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Kim Jong Il's body to be permanently displayed
North Korea says late leader Kim Jong Il's body will be permanently laid in state in a memorial palace in the capital. Kim's body will be displayed at Pyongyang's Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where the embalmed body of his father - North Korea founder Kim Il Sung - has been lying since 1995. He died in 1994.
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Indian cyberspace hit by Kim Jong-Il spam
Indian computer security analysts have detected and alerted internet users against "malicious spam mails" in the name of the dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il leading to hacking and crashing of vulnerable e-mails.
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North Korea vows to defend Kim Jong Un 'unto death'
North Korea vowed Sunday to stage an all-out drive for prosperity as it unites behind new leader Kim Jong Un, ushering in 2012 with promises to resolve food shortages, bolster its military and defend Kim Jong Il's young son "unto death."
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North Korea calls Kim Jong Un 'supreme leader'
North Korea declared Kim Jong Il's son and successor "supreme leader" of the ruling party, military and the people during a memorial Thursday for his father in the government's first public endorsement of his leadership.
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In Kim Jong-Il's funeral in North Korea, glimpses of meaning are sought
Kim Jong-un, the designated successor to the socialist throne in Pyongyang, North Korea, bid farewell on Wednesday to his deceased father, Kim Jong-il, walking along his hearse through snow-covered downtown Pyongyang in an extensive funeral closely watched for early glimpses of who's rising and who's fading under the young untested leader.
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What to look for at Kim Jong Il's funeral
Wailing and sobbing mourners beat their chests and dropped to their knees as North Korean President Kim Il Sung's hearse, draped with a red flag and bedecked with white magnolias, crawled through the streets of Pyongyang in 1994.
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North Korea conducts missile test: Report
South Korea's Yonhap news agency says North Korea has conducted a short-range missile test on the day the country announced the death of leader Kim Jong Il.
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North Korea 'Kim Jong Il' Birthday Tours To Open: Tour Agency
A tour operator said it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic.
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Meet Black Venus - The South Korean Spy Who Met Kim Jong Il
Before meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Southern spy "Black Venus" was told to stay up late, shower, and dress neatly. He also hid a micro recorder in his penis.
-
Sea Change In Korean Relations? Not At This Beachside Villa
On a cliff topped with pine trees and battered by icy waves, a stone villa stands at a cross-roads of Korean history, one that local officials hope can become a place of reconciliation.
-
Would North Korea Have Abducted An American In 2004 - To Teach Kim English?
Even by the standards of strange tales that come out of North Korea, this one is particularly bizarre.
-
Bomb Test 'Self-Defensive Step' Against 'Hostile' US Policy: Kim Jong Un
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country conducted a hydrogen bomb test as a self-defensive step against a US threat of nuclear war and had a sovereign right to do so without being criticised, state news agency KCNA reported today.
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In South Korea, a Town of Kims and An Unusual Shared History
Many of his students are Kims. So are his fellow teachers, an elementary school alumnus and the owners of restaurants and pubs that he patronizes in his small farming village. Lots of Kims in his neighborhood, too. Such is everyday life for Kim Sun Won, who, obviously, is a Kim too.
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Foreign Doctors, Military Guards: Bespoke Care for North Korea's Kims
In 1993, French neurosurgeon Francois-Xavier Roux received a phone call in Paris from an unidentified North Korean official. The then leader-in-waiting, Kim Jong Il, had suffered a head injury from a horse-riding accident and they wanted his advice.
-
Mandatory Kim Jong Un haircuts a baldfaced lie?
Have all male university students in North Korea been ordered to get haircuts like their leader, Kim Jong Un? The Internet certainly says so.
-
Kim Jong Il's body to be permanently displayed
North Korea says late leader Kim Jong Il's body will be permanently laid in state in a memorial palace in the capital. Kim's body will be displayed at Pyongyang's Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where the embalmed body of his father - North Korea founder Kim Il Sung - has been lying since 1995. He died in 1994.
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Indian cyberspace hit by Kim Jong-Il spam
Indian computer security analysts have detected and alerted internet users against "malicious spam mails" in the name of the dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il leading to hacking and crashing of vulnerable e-mails.
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North Korea vows to defend Kim Jong Un 'unto death'
North Korea vowed Sunday to stage an all-out drive for prosperity as it unites behind new leader Kim Jong Un, ushering in 2012 with promises to resolve food shortages, bolster its military and defend Kim Jong Il's young son "unto death."
-
North Korea calls Kim Jong Un 'supreme leader'
North Korea declared Kim Jong Il's son and successor "supreme leader" of the ruling party, military and the people during a memorial Thursday for his father in the government's first public endorsement of his leadership.
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In Kim Jong-Il's funeral in North Korea, glimpses of meaning are sought
Kim Jong-un, the designated successor to the socialist throne in Pyongyang, North Korea, bid farewell on Wednesday to his deceased father, Kim Jong-il, walking along his hearse through snow-covered downtown Pyongyang in an extensive funeral closely watched for early glimpses of who's rising and who's fading under the young untested leader.
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What to look for at Kim Jong Il's funeral
Wailing and sobbing mourners beat their chests and dropped to their knees as North Korean President Kim Il Sung's hearse, draped with a red flag and bedecked with white magnolias, crawled through the streets of Pyongyang in 1994.
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North Korea conducts missile test: Report
South Korea's Yonhap news agency says North Korea has conducted a short-range missile test on the day the country announced the death of leader Kim Jong Il.
