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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies; hundreds of thousands starved as police state kept the world on edge

by Adam Bernstein

Kim Jong Il, the strangely antic and utterly ruthless heir to North Korea’s Stalinist dictatorship, died of an apparent heart attack Saturday, state media reported Monday. He was said to be 69.

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