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North Korean leaders have long cited the year 2012 as being particularly significant. It will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor. Kim Jong Il, now 67 and ailing since a stroke last summer, is thought to be arranging his succession: analysts believe he wants to pass power to his youngest son, 26-year-old Kim Jong...
...banner lauds, in part, "the great leader Kim Il Sung...
...impossible odds associated with gaining admission to this college—such fortune should humble us. We have been taught by a Faculty chosen for their unrivalled ability to revolutionize their fields of study. We have won access to their minds, and they have enriched our own. We have sung for outstanding a capella groups, played for impressive sports teams, written for the most prestigious college newspaper in the country, and perhaps even dressed in drag for Hasty Pudding Theatricals. But just as empowering as those victories have been our defeats. Those strangers who arrived here four years ago were...
...Though Kim, according to intelligence reports, has resumed most of his duties, his own obvious frailty led even him, analysts believe, to begin preparing for the inevitable. Since becoming ill, as TIME revealed last month, Pyongyang has effectively been run by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law, Chang Sung Taek, who is married to the dictator's younger sister, the sibling Kim is reportedly closest to. (The fluid, unpredictable nature of politics around the ruler can never be underestimated: in 2003, Kim, suspicious that Chang was building up a power base of his own, had him placed under house...
...School of Berne, in Switzerland, using a pseudonym to hide his identity as a member of North Korea's ruling family. But several North Korea watchers in Seoul dispute that, and believe Jong Un has never been outside North Korea. From 2002 to 2007 he attended the Kim Il Sung military academy in Pyongyang. He's said to be about 5 ft. 9 in. (175 cm) tall, is overweight (nearly 200 lb., or 90 kg) and may suffer from diabetes, according to South Korean press reports...