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    North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a heart attack, a tearful state television announcer dressed in black reported.
    She said that the 69-year-old "passed away from a great mental and physical strain" while on a train trip, on his way to give "field guidance".
    The news agency said he died at 8:30am on Saturday (local time) of a "severe myocardial infarction along with a heart attack".
    An autopsy was performed on Sunday and a funeral is slated for December 28 the agency said.
    Known at home as "the Dear Leader", Kim took over North Korea in 1994 when his father and founder of the reclusive state Kim Il-sung, known as "the Great Leader", died.
    The Dear Leader

    • Kim Jong-il took over North Korea in 1994
    • Country fell deeper into poverty during his years in power
    • Vexed the world by developing a nuclear arms program
    • Portrayed as a criminal mastermind and a jovial lover of women, lobster and cognac
    • Read obituary




    The state news agency called on North Koreans to follow Kim's son and designated successor, Kim Jong-un.
    "All party members, military men and the public should faithfully follow the leadership of comrade Kim Jong-un and protect and further strengthen the unified front of the party, military and the public," state television said.
    Kim suffered a stroke in August 2008 which left him with impaired movement in his left arm and leg.
    The reclusive state had already begun the process of transferring power to Kim Jong-un, believed to be in his late 20s.
    Images broadcast on North Korean television showed people crying on the streets of the capital Pyongyang after they heard the news.
    The North has declared a period of national mourning from December 17 to 29.
    World reacts

    South Korea's Yonhap news agency says the South's military has been put on emergency alert.
    The presidential Blue House has called an emergency National Security Council meeting, Yonhap said.
    North and South Korea have remained technically at war since the three-year Korean conflict ended only in an armistice in 1953.
    The United States said it was "closely monitoring" reports of Kim's death and was committed to stability on the Korean peninsula and the security of its allies.
    "The president has been notified and we are in close touch with our allies in South Korea and Japan," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a carefully worded statement.
    A State Department official said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also briefed on Kim's death, but declined to be drawn into further discussions of the US response or its geopolitical implications.
    Former US assistant secretary of state Christopher Hill says Kim's death will cause jitters across the region.
    "The North Koreans, even on a good day, can be rather unpredictable and rather - as we saw in the past year - violent," Mr Hill said.
    "So I think it's going to be very important to keep a cool head. It's very difficult to predict, but I think one needs to be prepared for any and all eventualities."
    Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says it is difficult to know what will happen in North Korea in the days ahead but urged all parties to stay calm.
    "North Korea is a notoriously secretive society and it will be difficult to read in the immediate days ahead precisely what will transpire in terms of the future of the North Korea leadership," he said.
    "There will therefore be considerable ambiguity and uncertainty in the days ahead and this should be regarded as normal.
    "All governments, including the government of North Korea, should at this time be exercising maximum calm and restraint, both in terms of what they do and in their diplomatic signalling."
    He says the death of Kim provides the regime with an important opportunity to engage with the international community on how to feed its people, open its economy and deal with its nuclear weapons program.
    Mr Rudd says Australia will maintain contact with its friends and allies in the region, including the government of South Korea.

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            Kim Jong il is dead

            Looks like his Korea is over


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            • #7
              Originally posted by Ritzo90 View Post
              Kim Jong il is dead

              Looks like his Korea is over

              lol

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              • #8
                I was going to reply to this thread earlier but DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FUCKING BUSY I AM?

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                • #9
                  kim jong-un looking at things

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