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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.
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...
After his death, alongside "Eternal General Secretary" of the WPK, Kim Jong Il was declared "Eternal Chairman" of the now defunct National Defence Commission, in keeping with the tradition of establishing eternal posts for the dead members of the Kim dynasty.
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...
Kim Jong-il died on Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 69, say state media reports, which blamed "overwork and stress". He will be buried on 28 December. The BBC's John Sudworth in...
Kim Jong Il, North Korea's longtime dictator who allowed his people to starve while building a vast military, has died of heart failure. His death sparked immediate concern over who is in...
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...
