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North Korea: Kim Jong-Ils
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Going “to the workforce” could be a death sentence in North Korea. While reforms and reductions in staffs may well be occurring, it is unlikely that deep cuts would be made in military agencies as they are the foundation of Kim Jong-il’s power, and due to the fact mentioned above – those with intimate knowledge of the regime and enough assets to buy there way out. Such a policy would be the gift that keeps on giving for Korean and U.S. intelligence agencies.
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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has circulated a classified discussion paper calling for regime change in North Korea. The paper deviates from State Department plans to disarm Kim Jong-il with diplomacy and its promise not to overthrow his regime.
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[T]hen disaster rained down on her hometown, Chongjin, on North Korea’s remote east coast. Factories ran out of fuel. Food rations stopped. Watching her family slowly succumb to the famine — her mother-in-law, husband and son eventually would die of starvation — Kim realized she had to change.
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The Chinese-born Dutch businessman...a tulip tycoon..\..was appointed chief executive of the Sinuiju administrative region by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in late September.... The zone is eventually to be split from the rest of the isolated Communist country by a wall, and will have its own government and laws that will be modelled, Yang says, on the best of European, American and Asian systems.
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For most of her life, Kim Hui Suk had spouted the sayings of North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung and never for a moment harbored a doubt: Capitalists were the enemy. Individualism was evil.
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