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CNN
April 17, 2018
"Since then the term "comrade" was used to signify the wife of either Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il." Ri's new title places her "more within Western norms and helps remove some of the old communist vestiges of the past," Stangarone said. He added that Kim's decision to send his sister, Kim Yo Jong, to theÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 17, 2018
Her celebrity caught the attention of Kim Jong-il, the son of then-North Korean leader Kim Il-sung. His father's minister of propaganda and a film fanatic, Kim Jong-il ordered Choi's abduction from Hong Kong, starting an eight-year ordeal that would only end after she and Shin made a dramatic escape.
The Cut
April 17, 2018
While a cult of personality, marked by total loyalty to the honorable people, has existed since the 1940s around men in the Kim family — former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un — Kim wives don't necessarily get the same title. Reports started to swirl that Ri Sol-ju got the update whenÃâà...
동아일보
April 17, 2018
“Thank you for coming. I am King Jong Il,” said the North Korean young leader in a khaki jumper with curly hair back in January 1978, when he greeted Choi Eun-hee who set her feet in North Korea after being kidnapped in Hong Kong. There was rumor within South Korea that Kim Jong Il was in a vegetative state in theÃâà...
BBC News
April 17, 2018
A South Korean actress, once kidnapped by North Korea and forced to make films for the state, has died at 92. Choi Eun-hee was a leading actress in the South when she was kidnapped under the orders of then-leader Kim Jong-il in the late 1970s. Her ex-husband, a famous film director, was alsoÃâà...
thejournal.ie
April 17, 2018
A SOUTH KOREAN actress who was once kidnapped by the North's agents on the orders of late leader Kim Jong-Il in a Cold War-style intrigue and forced to make movies for the regime has died aged 91, according to her family. Choi Eun-hee was the South's most famous actress for decades before beingÃâà...
The Mainichi
April 16, 2018
Ko Yong Hui, mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shows a jacket she said she made by hand for Kim Jong Il. (Photo from the internal document "Great ... She was said to have undergone shooting training to protect Kim Jong Il. (Photo from the internal document "Great mother of military-first Korea.
Newsweek
April 10, 2018
The president criticized his predecessors for not having done so themselves, despite the fact that former president Jimmy Carter met Kim's grandfather Kim Il Sung and Bill Clinton met Kim's father Kim Jong Il after the end of their respective presidential terms—but remained optimistic about what the meetingÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 9, 2018
Thousands of North Koreans gathered in locations across Pyongyang Monday to dance in celebration of late leader Kim Jong-il. Men in suits and women in the traditional high-waisted, formless dresses known as hanbok in the South and joseon-ot in the North assembled in formation, squatting patientlyÃâà...
KSAT San Antonio
March 29, 2018
When Kim sought to succeed his father Kim Jong Il in late 2011, there was no guarantee he would be successful. North Korea had already seen power handed down one generation, from the country's founder Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong Il, but the current leader's father was a well-known and powerful figure inÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 29, 2018
“It is our consistent stand to be committed to denuclearisation on the peninsula, in accordance with the will of late President Kim Il-sung and late General Secretary Kim Jong-il,” China's Xinhua News quoted Kim as saying. “The issue of denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula can be resolved if SouthÃâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
A New York Times report from 2002 said that memoirs by former Russian official Konstantin Pulikovsky purported that Kim Jong Il had his train conducted by beautiful women and loaded with extravagant dishes and wine. ''It was possible to order any dish of Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and FrenchÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2018
“Kim knows the negotiations cannot fully succeed without China's support. China's involvement will make any solution more viable.” Some analysts said Mr. Kim was repeating a pattern set by his father, Kim Jong-il, who visited China shortly before his 2000 summit meeting with South Korea's then-presidentÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
March 28, 2018
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il, right, and Konstantin Pulikovsky, the Russian President's representative in the Far East, center, look at a photo of Larisa Denezhko, left, greeting his father and predecessor, Kim Il Sung, during a visit to the Soviet Union 13 years ago, after he crossed the Russian-NorthÃâà...
The Guardian
March 28, 2018
A distinctive green train has arrived in Beijing, sparking speculation that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was on board. It would be Kim's first trip abroad since succeeding his father in 2011. The train, which also has yellow stripes, is similar to that used by Kim Jong-il. China's foreign ministry has notÃâà...
ABC Local
March 28, 2018
The arrival in Beijing of the deep green train with yellow piping used exclusively by the ruling Kim family generated a lot of speculation before it was confirmed it had carried leader Kim Jong-un on his first trip outside of North Korea since taking power upon the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in DecemberÃâà...
New York Times
March 27, 2018
That additional weight translates to a slow ride. The trains are estimated to reach a maximum speed of just 37 miles per hour. In Kim Jong-il's time, according to the 2009 report, 100 security officers traveled in the advance train, searching stations for bombs and other threats and testing the safety of the track.
CNN
March 26, 2018
Both Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, the current leader's father and grandfather respectively, traveled by heavily armored train when they visited their allies in China and Russia. The South Korean government also said it couldn't confirm whether the North Korean leader was in Beijing. If he was, Moon'sÃâà...
ABC News
March 20, 2018
FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009, file photo distributed by the North Korean government, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, sits with then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il for a photo in Pyongyang, North Korea. With just weeks to go before it's all supposed to happen, there's still no official word on where U.S.Ãâà...
Deadspin
December 31, 1999
With apologies to anyone who was hoping my earlier two reviews were the result of being an all-around miserable person who is incapable of enjoyment: I really liked Bend It Like Beckham! Even watching it for the first time in 2018, everything about Bend It Like Beckham evokes the early 2000s. (And notÃâà...
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