N. Korea’s Kim Jong-il turns 68
SEOUL — North Koreans celebrated “peerlessly brilliant” leader Kim Jong-il’s 68th birthday Tuesday as questions persist abroad about his health and the future of the impoverished, nuclear-armed nation. Depressed and chronically ill, Mr. Kim relies on rare, costly and sometimes outlawed remedies such as rhino’s horn and the bile of bear gallbladder, one South Korean official told the Associated …
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