North Korea Constitution Change: Kim Jong-il now "Supreme Leader"

North Korea changed its constitution back in April, but changes were not known to the world until Monday. The several notable points in the constitution are the following:The chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) is the "supreme leader of the state", referring to...

N Korea 'tests weapons on children'

More details of the secretive N. Korean nation have emerged with the disclosure of a former N. Korean military captain revealing that the country tests biological and chemical weapons on children.  The government's prevailing attitude is that if a child is mentally or...

Kim Jong-il Has Pancreatic Cancer, Reports S.Korean news agency

South Korean YTN news agency issued a report, alleging that the leader of North Korea -- Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer and his illness is life-threatening. Kim Jong-il did not look very healthy when he attended the memorial dedicated to his father, the Great Leader Kim...

Heir Apparent To Kim Jong-Il Tried To Assassinate Older Brother?

Reports have surfaced that Kim Jong-un, the 26-year-old third son and heir apparent of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, attempted to assassinate his older brother Kim Jong-nam. The Chinese government reportedly put the kibosh on the plan to kill Kim Jong-Il's eldest son, who...

Best Strategy Against North Korea

Kim Jong-il of North Korea runs a half-starved country. Without Western aid his nation cannot survive. Such leaders do not care, in case of war, whether most of their people survive so long as they (the...

South Korea Says North Korea's Kim picks third son as successor

According to the Sourth Korean Spy agency,  NIS, North Korea's military leader Kim Jong Il has designated his youngest son Kim Jung-Un as his successor.NIS was in turn quoting some Chinese sources.“Kim Jong...

North Korea's Kim Jong-Il Returns to Public Eye

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has appeared made his first major appearance since his suspected stroke last year.  Mr Kim presided over a session of the North Korean parliament. His appearance comes just days after the country launched a long-range rocket, to widespread...

Kim Jong-Il picks youngest son as a future successor

The North Korean communist monarchy just got an official heir. Kim Jong-Il, the country's current leader, who is turning 68 in February of this year, has picked his youngest son Jong-un to become his successor as...

Kim Jong-Il makes public appearance, dispels rumours of illness

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has dispelled rumours of his alleged illness by making a public appearance at a concert. It was suspected Kim Jong-Il suffered a stroke in August of this year, which sparked...

North Korea leader Kim Jong Il makes first public appearance in 50 days

KCNA's last mention of Kim making a public appearance was in mid-August. While the reports from Pyongyang had Kim sending greetings to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and to Chinese leaders, there had been no...

North Korea fetes 60th birthday

North Korea’s communist regime has completed its 60th year. The anniversary was celebrated around  capital city of Pyongyang. Prior to the North’s independence declaration and foundation on...

Former US President Says US Scuttled 1994 Agreement With North Korea

"Jimmy Carter says US effectively abandoned agreement in 2002 when President Bush labeled North Korea as part of 'axis of evil' along with Iran and Iraq"

North Korea Calls the U.S. Bluff

"North Korea's announcement of a successful underground detonation of a nuclear weapon has called Washington's bluff. President Bush had long warned that the U.S. will not "tolerate" a nuclear-armed North Korea,...

Student Visa Double Standard

Former Taliban official enters his sophomore year at Yale on a government-approved visa. Students from countries far removed from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, find it much harder to study in the United States with official approval.

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