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The presenter Ri Chun-hee announced that he had died on 17 December at 8:30 am of a massive heart attack while travelling by train to an area outside Pyongyang.
He led North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Dec 19, 2011 · SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into...
Dec 19, 2011 · North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a heart attack at the age of 69, state media have announced. Millions of North Koreans were "engulfed in indescribable sadness", the KCNA state...
Dec 19, 2011 · Kim Jong-il, Dictator Who Turned North Korea Into a Nuclear State, Dies. Kim Jong-il, the son of North Korea's founder, visiting a farm in 2003. An unknowable figure, even his exact...
Dec 18, 2011 · North Korea’s enigmatic leader Kim Jong Il – who, after succeeding his father 17 years ago, captained his poor, closed nation and antagonized its enemies – is dead, state media reported Monday.
North Korean state television announced that leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69. He suffered a heart attack on board a train outside the capital, Pyongyang, on Saturday.
Feb 24, 2012 · On December 17, 2011, Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s enigmatic, reclusive dictator, dies of a heart attack while reportedly traveling on a train in his country.
Dec 19, 2011 · North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has died of apparent heart failure. He was 69. In a "special broadcast" Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died on a train due to a...
Dec 19, 2011 · 19 December 2011. The BBC's James Robbins reports on the life of North Korea's Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il was one of the world's most reclusive and enigmatic leaders, presiding over...
