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 Korea Launch Signals 
 Troubling Progress 

Experts believe 'satellite' failure was moderately successful missile test

Apr 6, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea's weekend rocket launch failed in the third stage, and its payload—be it friendly satellite or naked nuclear ambition—lies at the bottom of the Pacific, but the test shows alarming progress, experts tell the Los Angeles Times. Analysts dismiss North Korea's claims that a satellite made it... More »

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North Korea Makes Threat Over Missile Launch

Vows to restart nuclear plants if sanctioned

Mar 26, 09 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea said today it would reopen its nuclear facilities if the UN Security Council takes action over a planned missile launch, Reuters reports. If the UN adds sanctions against North Korea, Pyongyang said it would reverse the closing of both a nuclear reactor and its Yongbyon atomic plant, which... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • missile • satellite • rocket • Kim Jong Il • UN Security Council

 N. Korea Readies 
 Missile for Launch 

UN sanctions will derail disarmament talks: Pyongyang

Mar 25, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the date of a promised “satellite launch” nears, North Korea has placed a long-range ballistic missile on the launch pad used for earlier test firings, Reuters reports. South Korea, Japan, and the US plan to seek UN sanctions if the nuclear power goes forward with what analysts believe... More »

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North Korea • United Nations • South Korea • Japan • United States • satellite • Kim Jong Il • UN sanctions • nuclear missiles • intercontinental ballistic missile • nuclear test

North Koreans Eat Pizza—After 10 Years' Wait

Kim Jong-Il wanted perfect recipe before authorizing restaurant

Mar 16, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Millions of North Koreans suffer from undernourishment, but in Pyongyang, the ruling elite have a new dining option: the country's first pizzeria. It opened last December, more than a decade after Kim Jong-Il, reportedly a serious gourmand, brought a stable of Italian pizza chefs to teach army officers how to... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • dictatorship • pizza • Kim Jong Il

North Korean Troops
on War Alert

Nuclear state prepares 'satellite' launch that US fears is missile test

Mar 9, 09 1:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea is warning that troops are on full combat alert as its southern neighbor preps for an annual military exercise with the US, BBC reports. The nuclear nation also threatened war if a "satellite" it plans to deploy soon is disturbed. South Korea and the US believe that... More »

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 Desperate Hunger 
 Plagues N. Korea, 
 Forces Change  

Rampant malnutrition fuels capitalist markets

Mar 6, 09 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea has, in its words, an “eating problem”: unable to feed its residents, it has become the world’s first nuclear-armed “beggar,” the Washington Post reports. Malnutrition has led to a spate of mental and physical disabilities—a quarter of potential troops will be disqualified because... More »

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North Korea • hunger • capitalism • Kim Jong Il • food shortage • malnutrition

 North Korea Threatens 
 Civilian Flights 

South Korean-US military exercise rattles Pyongyang

Mar 5, 09 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - North Korea said it could not guarantee the safety of civilian flights near its airspace in light of a joint US-South Korean military exercise, the Telegraph reports. The annual exercise, which South Korea and the US say is purely defensive, is for next week. Pyongyang warned that it could not... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Kim Jong Il • civilians • military exercises • airspace violation • Lee Myung Bak

 Stroke Survivor Kim Puffs Away 

Despite strict anti-smoking laws, North Korean leader takes a drag

Feb 26, 09 7:33 AM CST
(AP) - President Obama isn't the only world leader with a less-than-consistent message about smoking. Despite his reported stroke last August, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was recently photographed puffing on a cigarette during a recent tour of a tobacco factory, reports the AP. One photo shown on North Korean state television... More »

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Clinton Warns North Korea, Names Special Envoy

Special envoy for North Korea named

Feb 20, 09 6:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton warned an increasingly belligerent North Korea to cease its "provocative and unhelpful" threats toward the South today, the AP reports. In a Seoul press conference, the secretary of state named former US ambassador to South Korea Stephen Bosworth as special envoy for North Korea and said he... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • diplomacy • South Korea • Asia • Kim Jong Il • special envoy

Earth, Sky Celebrate Kim Jong-Il's B-day

Leader's upcoming birthday has improved weather: state agency

Feb 13, 09 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Temperatures in North Korea are warmer than normal, willow catkins are in bloom, and the moon is sporting a halo—all thanks to Kim Jong-Il. A Korean news agency says “that even the nature and the sky unfolded such mysterious ecstasy in celebration of the birthday” of the North... More »

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 Post-Stroke Kim Jong-il 
 Meets Chinese Official 

Visit marks first appearance with foreigners since illness

Jan 23, 09 7:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-il, the North Korean supreme leader, met a senior official from China's Communist Party today—in his first known meeting with a foreigner since suffering a stroke in August. The meeting was seen as an attempt to show that Kim remains in charge of North Korea, which has strongly... More »

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Kim Jong-Il Names Youngest Son as Successor: Reports

Swiss-educated Jong-Un, about 25, said to be thoughtful, intelligent

Jan 15, 09 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il has picked his third—and, at about 25, thought to be his youngest—son, Jong-Un, as his successor in North Korea, Reuters reports. Though it has yet to be confirmed, officials said they have been instructed to spread the message, possibly to quell anxiety over who would lead... More »

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 Kim Jong-Il Cheered at Concert 

First major public appearance since stroke

Dec 29, 08 5:41 AM CST
(Newser) - A wildly cheering orchestra audience greeted North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il at his first major public appearance since his suspected stroke in August, reports Reuters. Western intelligence experts began speculating in September that Kim was seriously ill—or dying—when he failed to appear at an important military parade at... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • stroke • Kim Jong Il • KCNA • Unification Ministry • Kim Il-sung

Kim Jong-Il Back in
Public After Stroke 

North Korean leader appears recovered

Dec 22, 08 2:10 AM CST
(Newser) - US intelligence officials believe North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has recovered from a stroke he suffered last August, and has been making public appearances, Reuters reports. The 66-year-old dictator recently inspected army units and a ceramics factory, according to North Korea's state-controlled media. One appearance is believed to have taken... More »

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 N. Korea 
 Clamps Down 
 on Border 

Major setback to years of economic, tourist ties between Koreas

Dec 1, 08 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea today made good on its threat to restrict border crossings from South Korea, severely hampering trade and ending tourism with its neighbor. The move, blocking large numbers of South Koreans and reducing border-crossing hours, is a protest against South Korea's new hardline president that negates years of hard-fought... More »

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Kim Jong-Il Had a 2nd Stroke:
Japanese TV

Report suggests that North Korea leader could be incapacitated

Nov 11, 08 6:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Uncertainty grew this morning about the health of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il after a Japanese television station reported that he has suffered a second stroke, Reuters reports. The claim came from a source connected to an American intelligence agency, but South Korean officials rejected the assertion. North Korea... More »

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Brother-in-Law Pilots N. Korea for Ailing Kim

Head of secret police fills in as dictator heals from stroke: analysts

Nov 7, 08 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il’s brother-in-law is running North Korea as the dictator recovers from a stroke, experts tell the Times of London. South Korean analysts say that while Kim is conscious and probably mobile, he remains weak. But Pyongyang appears to be functioning normally in the hands of Chang Sung Taek,... More »

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Efforts to Show Off Kim's Health Raise More Eyebrows

Observers can't tell whether recently released photos are legit

Nov 6, 08 4:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Recently released photos of Kim Jong-il are baffling observers, who still speculate the North Korean leader may have suffered a stroke despite officials’ insistence otherwise, the New York Times reports. One photo has green foliage, although North Korea’s trees are now sporting autumn colors; in another, Kim’s left... More »

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North Korea • propaganda • New York Times • stroke • Kim Jong Il

 Kim Calls 
 Shots from 
 Hospital: 
 Japan 

Leader is sick, but able to run the country

Oct 28, 08 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il is probably in the hospital but still calling the shots, Japanese PM Taro Aso says, citing intelligence reports and adding that if the North Korean leader were incoherent, "we would be seeing different developments." A Japanese professor returning from Pyongyang says North Koreans are calm, a... More »

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 Son Appears to Fetch 
 Brain Doc for Kim 

North Korean leader's eldest son seen soliciting surgeon in Paris

Oct 27, 08 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Adding to the evidence that Kim Jong-Il is in grave health, the North Korean leader’s eldest son was filmed while apparently securing the services of a brain surgeon in Paris, the Times of London reports today. Fuji TV also showed clips of an unnamed surgeon being driven in a... More »

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North Korea • Paris • dictatorship • stroke • Koreans • Kim Jong Il • brain surgery • Kim Jong Nam

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