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/ 27 October 2009
For those who see North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as a dangerous lunatic, there is no shortage of supporting evidence.
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/ 18 September 2009
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has told a visiting Chinese envoy he will work to end his country’s nuclear arms programme through multilateral talks.
Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday with two American journalists, having secured their release in a meeting with the hermit state’s leader.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (67) has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday.
North Korea fired six ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea’s defence ministry said, in an act of defiance towards the United States.
The leaders of South Korea and the United States told North Korea to drop its atomic ambitions and stop threatening the region.
North Korea said on Saturday it would start a uranium enrichment programme and vowed to weaponise all of its plutonium.
Russia has information on North Korean plans to launch a ballistic missile but does not know when it will take place, a source said on Wednesday.
North Korea said on Monday it had found two US journalists guilty of entering the state illegally and sentenced both to 12 years of hard labour.
Kim Jong-il is too worried about his own well-being to start a war, North Korean defectors said on Thursday.
North Korea threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after it joined a US-led plan to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment for weapons.
North Korea, defiant in the face of international condemnation of its latest nuclear test, on Tuesday accused the United States of hostile intent.
North Korea said it successfully conducted a nuclear test on Monday, a move certain to further isolate the prickly state.
Regardless of whether North Korea’s rocket launch was a success or failure, analysts say the regime will spin the news to bolster support.
The United Nations failed to agree on a response to North Korea’s long-range rocket launch despite pressure from Washington and its allies for action.
North Korea will soon launch a long-range rocket after completing preparations to put a satellite into space, its official media said on Saturday.
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/ 21 February 2009
North Korea kept up its tough rhetoric on Saturday against the United States and the South on Saturday, accusing Washington of preparing for war.
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/ 15 February 2009
The moon over hermit North Korea gave off a mysterious glow and citizens pledged undying loyalty to leader Kim Jong-il ahead of his birthday.
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/ 22 December 2008
US and South Korean intelligence believe North Korea’s reports of Kim Jong-il’s public appearances are likely true, a local daily said on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2008
North Korea said on Wednesday it will close its land border with the South from next month, largely putting a stop to the few exchanges that exist.
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/ 2 November 2008
North Korea on Sunday released photographs of Kim Jong-Il, in what outside analysts say was a move aimed at quelling speculation over his health.
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/ 28 October 2008
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is likely in hospital but is still capable of making decisions, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 September 2008
North Korea upped the ante in the stand-off over its nuclear programme, confirming on Friday that it is restoring a key atomic reactor.
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/ 19 September 2008
A North Korean official on Friday dismissed as malicious gossip reports from last week that leader Kim Jong-il may have suffered a stroke.
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/ 16 September 2008
North Korea on Tuesday renewed criticism of last month’s US-South Korean military exercise and vowed to strengthen its ”war deterrent”.
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/ 10 September 2008
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is not seriously ill, a top official in the secretive state was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2008
North Korea celebrated its 60th birthday with a military parade on Tuesday just as the state appears to be backing away from a disarmament deal.
North Koreans waved flags, plastic flowers and danced in the streets of Pyongyang to welcome the Olympic torch on Monday after the destitute state had promised its main benefactor China an ”astonishing” show. The global torch relay ahead of the Beijing Games in August has prompted protests against China’s rights record in Tibet.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has hailed his troops as ”invincible” during a military inspection, official media announced on Sunday amid a war of words and growing tensions with South Korea. Pyongyang in recent days has threatened to reduce the South to ”ashes” and called its new conservative president, Lee Myung-Bak, a traitor.
Until Monday there was little argument about the holder of the coveted title of shortest leader in the world: at 162cm, or a shade over five feet three inches, Kim Jong-il, supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army and Great Leader of the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea, stood head and shoulders below the rest of the field.
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/ 26 February 2008
Cold War foes the United States and North Korea enjoyed a rare moment of harmony on Tuesday when the New York Philharmonic played an unprecedented concert in the hermit state. An audience of North Korea’s communist elite gave America’s oldest orchestra a standing ovation after a rousing set that took in Dvorak, Gershwin and a Korean folk song
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/ 25 February 2008
The New York Philharmonic arrived in a snowy Pyongyang on Monday to play the symphony From the New World in an overture to thaw still frozen ties from the Cold War era between the United States and North Korea. If well-received, the concert would make a ”tiny contribution” toward bringing the United States and North Korea closer together, said music director, Lorin Maazel