Kim Jong-il
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Kim Jong-un dogs end up at South Korean zoo after care costs row
Moon Jae-in gave up hunting dogs claiming government refused to cover food and veterinary billsA pair of dogs …
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No ‘fire and fury’ yet, but a game of nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea looms
Analysis: Kim Jong-un’s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now sign…
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North Korea bans laughing for 11 days during mourning for anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s death – video
Video from Pyongyang shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un looking very dour as he attends the memo…
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Rollercoasters, horses and weight loss: 10 years of Kim Jong-un image politics
As North Korea marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, we look at how official portraits of hi…
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From ‘tempestuous’ child to little rocket man: 10 years of Kim Jong-un
Some observers said he would survive a few months as the head of a nuclear-armed state but, a decade later, th…
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‘My mother begged me not to go’: the Japanese women who married Koreans – and never saw their family again
Mitsuko left Japan in 1960 for a new life in North Korea. Once there, she realised she – and hundreds of other…