nytimes.com - 10/28/2008
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Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s leader, is probably hospitalized but still capable of making decisions, Japan’s prime minister, Taro Aso, said Tuesday. >
timesonline.co.uk - 10/27/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
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 ...
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Kim Jong-Il 'being treated by brain surgeon'
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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Reports Say Kim Jong-Il in Hospital
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Mr. Aso said in a parliamentary session that there are reports he has been hospitalized. However, its not believed that he is completely incapable of making decisions, Mr. Aso said, answering an opposition lawmakers question during a exchange on foreign affairs and defense. If Mr. Kim, 66, had been incapable of decision-making, Japanese and other intelligence officials believe, we would be seeing different developments in North Korea, the prime minister said. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/world/asia/29kim.html...
Crisis Watch
Weekly Standard Blog —
Barack Obama's running mate, Joe the Gaffe Machine, recently predicted that an international crisis will occur sometime during a President Obama's first year in office. What will it be? Trouble in Iraq? Tension between China and Taiwan? State collapse in North Korea? Crisis in the Straits of Hormuz? War in central Africa? There are so many options. How about a Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of France said Tuesday that Moscow had been issuing Russian passports ...
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