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Dec 11, 2010
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North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong-il may be getting along in years – he turns 70 in February – and the country may be beginning to prepare for his departure, to be replaced by his son, the Young General. But to this day, Kim remains an indefatigable inspector of factories, farms or almost anything else except the vast impoverished gulag that makes up h…

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