timesonline.co.uk - 10/19/2008
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North Korea has reportedly ordered its diplomats to stay near their embassies to await an important message , setting off renewed speculation about the health of its leader, Kim Jong-il. Foreign governments believe Kim suffered a stroke in August and was treated by Chinese doctors. In Seoul, ...
news.sky.com - 10/19/2008
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news.sky.com —
North Korea is set to make an "important
announcement" on Monday amid speculation over the health of
its leader Kim Jong-Il, a Japanese newspaper has reported.
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Has North Korea's Leader Died?
timesonline.co.uk - 10/24/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones
and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread
of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country. In a report ...
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North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news ...
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... to the diplomatic corps was in 1994, at the death of Kim's father, and media around the world seized on this communiqu to initiate a frenzied round of speculation. Among the rumors in circulation, the standout, of course, is the possible death of Kim, which in turn has generated dire predictions of chaos on the peninsula, including the possibility of a significant escalation in tensions between the two Koreas. With North Korea having recently demonstrated its good faith in scaling back its nuclear program, and its subsequent removal by the United States from the US' ...
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