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...unsuccessfully, to reform his economy. Kim has been able to resist such demands partly because North Korea is dynastic, with a cult of personality that is freakishly strong; there are no fewer than 30,000 statues and monuments to the Kim family throughout the country. Kim has three sons from which to choose a successor, and it's now become something of a parlor game among analysts to select the front runner. At the moment, that seems to be Kim's youngest son Kim Jong Un, 26, who bears a striking resemblance to his father and is said...
Jong Un's mother Ko Young Hee, a former dancer, was Kim's third wife. Analysts say that before she died of breast cancer in 2004, she pushed Kim to name one of their two sons as his successor. (Kim's third son is by a different wife.) By 2007, Jong Un and his older brother Kim Jong Chul were enrolled in a program created specifically for them at Kim Il Sung Military University. Kim is said by his former sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, who wrote a memoir of his days in the North, to think that Jong Chul...
...many comical comments made by President George H.W. Bush and late-night talk-show hosts like Johnny Carson on his bow tie and not-just-a-pretty-face appearances on network news. The 3½-page dispatch was written by Irving himself a few months before he died because, a son said, he didn't want any mistakes. It was also Irving's final sly tribute to his unique image in a medium increasingly defined by sameness...
...wife Svetlana have a son, Ilya, born...
...foreign countries before him. Recruited by the British army in 1999, the 30-year-old soldier has braved hails of Taliban bullets during two recent stints in Afghanistan. But he is uncertain whether he will be able to pass down his kukri - or the Gurkha legacy - to his son...