timesonline.co.uk - 10/24/2008
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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 to the UN General Assembly, Vitit ...
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 - 10/27/2008
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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'
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... up 22% as Home Office admits police have been under-recording serious offences for ten years. About time the truth on crime came out. 2.5p increase in income tax needed to fill Government's £125bn black hole. The final nail in Labours coffin. Police fear riots if Barack Obama loses US election. Nothing compared to the carnage if he wins. Iraq: US forces hand over Triangle of Death. More progress. North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis. They have mobile ...
North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis
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... expose religious communities. His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the countrys worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago. Sadly, even though the harvest was getting better, we have had devastating floods in 2006 and 2007, Mr Muntarbhorn said in New York. Over the past year we have had very worrying information of a very chronic food shortage. Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/articl...
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