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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has met with a senior Chinese official, in what may be his first contact with a foreign representative since reportedly falling ill last year and retreating from public view, China's state media reported.
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A senior Chinese official is visiting North Korea, state media said, in a trip coinciding with the inauguration of the new US administration. The visit by Wang Jiarui, reported late Wednesday, also raises the prospect of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il...
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People in Pyongyang, if they can afford a cell phone, may be able to use one starting December, with the help of an Egyptian telecom company. Orascom Telecom, a Cairo-based phone company, won the first mobile phone license in North Korea in January and...
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Pyongyang has released several "recent" photos of Kim, 66, in an effort to prove his good health, but digital analysis by keen-eyed online investigators has fingered them as being either dated or doctored using tools such as Photoshop. It comes after...
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Korean People's Army (KPA) and watched the soldiers training, the official Rodong Sinmun daily reported Wednesday. Kim visited a sub-unit of KPA Unit 534 and KPA Unit 2200, the report said...State media reported that Kim watched a football match on...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il did not join top officials attending the funeral of a high-ranking party member, South Korean officials said Friday. Kim's failure to attend the funeral of Pak Song Chol, a close aide to his late father, Kim Il Sung, comes...
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The Sankei Shimbun, a rightwing broadsheet, quoted an unidentified Japanese defence ministry official as saying that "an announcement of important information will be made on October 20." The report did not provide details, but analysts believe the announcement...
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North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, who is believed by South Korean and U.S. officials to have suffered a stroke, has made his first public appearance in one and a half months, the North's state-run news agency reported Saturday. Kim watched a soccer game...
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After reports in early September that North Korea's Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, may have suffered a debilitating stroke (which North Korean officials deny), Pyongyang confirmed on Sept. 19 again, without Kim present that it was preparing to restart its...
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The "Dear Leader" is ill and out of sight _ at a time when North Korea is backtracking on a pledge to abandon its nuclear ambitions and building a missile base that analysts say could put U.S. territory within range. Some fear that the longer Kim Jong...
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