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Kim Jong Il Made His Sushi Chef Kiss Him on the Regular

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Well, except for the whole employer-employee, dictator-subject relationship going on. And some death threats here and there. NBD. Even in death, the former supreme ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, provides a flowing spring of gallows humor. Show More Summary

Kim Jong Il’s Sushi Chef Talks to GQ

Although former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il golfed 38 under par, turns out he wasn’t so good at racing jet skis. But he didn’t mind going to the sauna. Naked. With his chef. Hmmm…. In a story appearing in GQ next week, the former...Show More Summary

NORTH KOREA MOVING TO CLOSE KAESONG INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ENTIRELY

2 weeks agoNews : The Coming Crisis

North Korea is moving toward closing the Kaesong Industrial Complex in accordance with orders issued by Kim Jong Il before he died, according to new information from a Chosun Workers’ Party cadre based in Pyongyang.Kim is said to have...Show More Summary

Former North Korean Tyrant Kim Jong Il Liked to Eat Snakes, Hippos and Spiders

3 weeks agoNews : NewsFeed

Deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il would chow down on exotic creatures including snakes, hippos and spiders, his former personal chef has told the Sun. Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese national, first visited North Korea in 1982 and...Show More Summary

Kim Han Sol, Kim Jong Il's Facebook-loving grandson, is reportedly 'missing' from his Bosnian prep s

Kim Han Sol, Kim Jong Il's Facebook-loving grandson, is reportedly 'missing' from his Bosnian prep school. Read more...

Vivid Novel About North Korea Wins Pulitzer Honor

last monthNews : The Two-Way

Adam Johnson took the fiction prize for The Orphan Master's Son, his sharp take on life in the authoritarian regime under Kim Jong Il.

Episode 714 – Mysterious Universe Plus+

Ever had the compulsion to inject venom from the worlds most toxic snakes into your blood stream? Or perhaps you have the penchant for Japanese vodka made from poisonous hornets? No?  We also uncovered stories of Kim Jong Il’s personal sushi chef and his daring escape from...

Inside the world of Kim Jong Un: North Korea's strange hermit king

What do we know about Kim?He's the third and youngest son of former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, the "Dear Leader" who died in 2011. Because of the secretive nature of the regime, no one outside of Pyongyang's ruling elite knows the young Kim's precise birth date — experts think he is 29 or 30 years old — or his mother's true identity. Show More Summary

Take Cover! It’s NoKo New Year

When North Korea‘s founder Kim Il Sung was alive, he’d celebrate his birthday by imprisoning hundreds of thousands of “ideological offenders” or unveiling a blueprint for a “communist paradise.” His son and heir, Kim Jong Il, turnedShow More Summary

North Korea Under Kim Jong Un: Old Threats and New Worries

In 17 years under Kim Jong Il, North Korea grabbed the world’s attention with several missile tests, a pair of nuclear detonations and a big helping of threats. Kim’s youngest son and successor has hit all those highlights of North Korean-style leadership in just over a year at the helm. Show More Summary

American Kim Jong Il biographer wants to spread the Juche love

2 months agoChina / Shanghai : Shanghaiist

NKNews recently ran an article on Michael Malice, an American author who has announced his plans to write an "Unauthorized Autobiography" of late North Korean Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Malice is funding his book via Kickstarter (with this fundraising video) after publishers rejected it for being "too weird." [ more › ]

Kim Jong Eun inherited an eccentric obsession with basketball from father Kim Jong Il

3 months agoNews : BlogPost

At the end of her two-day trip to North Korea in October 2000, a historic but ultimately failed effort to thaw relations, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented her host with a gift. The State Department officials working on … Continue reading ?

Elsewhere In The World: Dennis Rodman Says He’s “Friends For Life” With Nuclear Bombin’ N. Korea Dictator Kim Jong Il!

It’s terrifying to think that the fate of our country rests on the tattooed shoulders of Dennis Keith Rodman… Dennis Rodman Says Kim Jong Il Is His Friend And A Great Leader Via ABCNews Ending his unexpected round of basketball

Flashback: Kim Jong Il tried to get Michael Jordan to visit North Korea

3 months agoNews : BlogPost

North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun’s interest in basketball goes back to before Dennis Rodman’s visit this week, when the two of them reportedly watched a basketball game together. His father, eccentric dictator Kim Jong Il, reportedly also loved the … Continue reading ?

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice

3 months agoOdd : Laughing Squid

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il is an upcoming biography of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il by author & professional ghostwriter Michael Malice. To write the book in Kim Jong-il’s own words, Malice is drawing on a collection of English language North Korean propaganda books which he collected during a [...]

Photographs: Inside North Korea

3 months agoNews : The Newsroom

Female North Korean traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to pay their respects in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. North Koreans turned out to commemorate what would have been the 71th birthday of Kim Jong Il who died on Dec. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Two U.S. Secret Meetings with North Korea Last Year

The American policy of eschewing one-on-one negotiations with the North Korean dictatorship was secretly ignored last year, as two missions in April and August were launched to convince Kim Jong Il’s son and successor, Kim Jong Un, to move away from its extremist positions. Show More Summary

N. Korea’s Kim More Intent on Nukes Than Dad Was: Analysis

3 months agoNews : ABC Headlines Blog

  When Kim Jong Un took power in North Korea after the death of his father Kim Jong Il in 2011, hopes were high among North Korea watchers that the Swiss educated leader would be different and more reasonable when it came to the country’s...

Was this man the world's greatest golfer?

3 months agoOdd : TYWKIWDBI

In 1994, in the one time he played golf, Kim Jong Il made 11 holes-in-one in the process of shooting a 38-under-par 34 over 18 holes. It had to be true because the feat was witnessed and attested to by Kim's 17 bodyguards.Note that was the first and only time he ever played golf. Show More Summary

The infantilization of Kim Jong Il

3 months agoNews : BlogPost

Former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has a birthday coming up next week, a state holiday referred to as "the day of the shining star"; he would be turning 72, were he still alive. If you're still looking for a gift to appropriately mark the occasion, look no further. North Korean state media has released a series of stamps commemorating Kim as a child. Read full article >>

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