timesonline.co.uk - 10/27/2008
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New doubts over the health of North Korea s Dear Leader have arisen after Kim Jong Il s eldest son was filmed in Paris apparently soliciting the services of a top brain surgeon. The footage, shot by the Japanese Fuji Television, has rekindled conjecture that Mr Kim is gravely ill and has ...
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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Kim Jong-Il 'being treated by brain surgeon'
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Theo Spark —
... Jules on the Nazi plotter with 'issues' Fears for public safety as James Bond's backroom boys face axe. Try sacking some civil servants. I take it 'Q' is not a member of a union. Police spend £35,000 on a new force logo - but it looks just like their old one. Glad the local plod have their priorities straight!!! Foreign preachers of hate to be banned from UK. What's taken so bloody long? Kim Jong-Il 'being treated by brain surgeon'. A proctologist would be more use!
Disarming North Korea: Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity
Pajamas Media —
... with the United States — and its past — relations with North Korea. Today, Washington has failed to recognize and capitalize on these favorable regional currents. And there is one more trend favorable to the United States. At this moment, the North is becoming even more vulnerable. Its economy is in the third year of an economic downturn, its impoverished people face the prospect of another famine, its leader is ailing (evidence that Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke in August is now “overwhelming” ), and its one-man form of government is in doubt as succession to a ...
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