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1 By Drew Grant 12/19/11 12:00am

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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il Announced Dead at 69; Unsure Future For Everything Now

Kim Jong Il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who kept the world on eggshells with his threats of nuclear capability and quirky habit of locking up any reporter who tried to enter North Korea, was pronounced dead at 69 late this Sunday evening.This announcement was made by the state's media outlet KCNA, located out of the capital of Pyongyang.

The cause of death, according to the state media, was a heart attack due to "great mental and physical strain" while on a field tour. Kim Jong Il had suffered a stroke in 2008, but was generally thought to have been in good health. Except for that one year when everyone thought that he was dying from pancreatic cancer.
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By Staff 3/05/07 6:13pm

Events for March 6, 2007 [UPDATED]

[Due to a mix-up, the original post listed events that took place yesterday. What follows are today's events. Really.] 8 a.m. A discussion with Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will be held on recent progress in 6-party talks on North Korea at Japan Society, 333 E. 47th Street, Read More

By Staff 2/26/07 9:17am

International Popularity: North Korea Up, Iran Down

A nationwide Quinnipiac poll gauged the popularity of various countries with American voters and found that North Korea became slightly more popular, Iran became less popular and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela stayed the same. Here are the current approval ratings of the most popular and least popular countries, along with their scores from a Quinnipiac Read More

By Staff 2/01/07 6:43am

Outside New York: A Crisis Guide

Former City Council staffer Brittany Mariotti sends word that her current employer, the Council on Foreign Relations, has a new interactive site about North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The Korea Crisis Guide includes a map whic explains where North Korea is (admit you need it); shows the military strength of neighboring countries, and gives economic Read More

By Niall Stanage 11/27/06 12:00am

Kim’s Nukes Ignite Korean War at Home

The dapper middle-aged man in suit and tie lifted his hands from the table, locked them together and then, very loudly, imitated the sound of gunfire. “Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh!” shouted Byung Sun Soh, startling the children at nearby tables in a Burger King in Flushing, Queens, on a quiet Sunday morning. Mr. Soh, a 66-year-old with a Read More

By Niall Stanage 11/27/06 12:00am

Kim’s Nukes Ignite Korean War at Home

The dapper middle-aged man in suit and tie lifted his hands from the table, locked them together and then, very loudly, imitated the sound of gunfire.

“ Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh!” shouted Byung Sun Soh, startling the children at nearby tables in a Burger King in Flushing, Queens, on a quiet Sunday morning. Mr. Soh, a 66-year-old with Read More
By Joe Conason 10/16/06 12:00am

Reaping the Fruits of Bush’s Korea Policy

If North Korea’s first nuclear weapons test was indeed a dud, we will hear another round of jokes at the expense of Kim Jong Il and his clown haircut. But while mocking an eccentric dictator is always fun, he has equal reason to chortle at the Bush administration’s erratic foreign policy, which has stumbled into Read More

By Joe Conason 10/16/06 12:00am

Reaping the Fruits of Bush’s Korea Policy

If North Korea’s first nuclear weapons test was indeed a dud, we will hear another round of jokes at the expense of Kim Jong Il and his clown haircut. But while mocking an eccentric dictator is always fun, he has equal reason to chortle at the Bush administration’s erratic foreign policy, which has stumbled into Read More

By Joe Conason 7/28/03 12:00am

Bush Chases Saddam, Ignores Real Threats

For the past year, George W. Bush has faced a choice between a real nuclear crisis and a fake nuclear crisis. Unfortunately for the nation and the world, he chose wrongly-and his mistake has made solving the real crisis more difficult and dangerous.

The phony crisis, as we now learn in greater detail with every passing Read More
By Jason Gay 1/27/03 12:00am

Sam, I Still Am

Even removed from television, Sam Donaldson still seems a little bonkers.

Partly it's his look: those bushy, angular eyebrows, bent upward like a jack-o'-lantern's; those halfback shoulders and spindly arms; that swirly chestnut … mane. Partly it's his manic body tics-the jerky shoulder shrugs, the flailing hands that chop-chop-chop down on each articulated point, like an Read More
By Joe Conason 1/27/03 12:00am

Korean Crisis Befuddles Bush

It has been a year since George W. Bush announced the existence of an "axis of evil." The speechwriter who crafted that frightening phrase for last year's State of the Union address, currently out marketing his memoir, has been unavailable to fashion the sequel. That leaves the President and his aides to figure out how Read More

By : Richard Brookhiser 1/20/03 12:00am

Left-Wing Peaceniks Make Love to Saddam

The pot labeled "North Korea" at the back of the stove in the kitchen of the roadside diner bubbles up suddenly. Uncle Sam, the sweating, tattooed cook, lunges for it. Out front, the pundits in their booth, who were expecting a long meal of Roast Iraq, hear the commotion and begin calling hysterically for the Read More


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