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North Korean Leadership Through the Years
The secretive leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, is dead at the age of 69. The official report says the North Korean leader had a heart attack while on a train during what it called a 'field inspection.'
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Kim Jong-Il (C), son of North Korea's President Kim Il-Sung and the country's heir-apparent visiting a mine during an "on-the-spot" guidance tour, undated image. (AFP)
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Thousands of people kneel down or stand in front of a giant statue (the Mansudae monument) of North Korean President Kim Il Sung to mourn the death of late President at the Korean Revolution Museum in Pyongyang, North Korea, July 9, 1994. (AFP)
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North Korea's Kim Jong-Il (R) and his father Kim Il-Sung (L), who died in July 1994, attending an evening party to celebrate the 6th Korean Worker's Party convention, October, 1980. (AFP)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) and his father and then-leader, Kim Il-Sung (L), undated image. (AFP)