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    Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011

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  1. Dec 19, 2011 · Kim Jong-il, Dictator Who Turned North Korea Into a Nuclear State, Dies. Kim Jong-il, the son of North Korea's founder, visiting a farm in 2003. An unknowable figure, even his exact...

  2. Dec 19, 2011 · SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into...

  3. Dec 19, 2011 · North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has died of apparent heart failure. He was 69. In a "special broadcast" Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died on a train due to a...

  4. Kim Jong Il , or Kim Chong Il, (born Feb. 16, 1941, Siberia, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died Dec. 17, 2011, North Korea), North Korean leader, the son of Kim Il-Sung. Often called “Dear Leader” in his country, he was designated his father’s successor in 1980 and became North Korea’s de facto leader on his father’s death in 1994.

  5. Dec 19, 2011 · 19 December 2011. The BBC's James Robbins reports on the life of North Korea's Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il was one of the world's most reclusive and enigmatic leaders, presiding over a secretive and ...

  6. Dec 19, 2011 · PYONGYANG, North Korea - Even as the world changed around him, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il remained firmly in control, ruling absolutely at home and keeping the rest of the world on edge ...

  7. Dec 21, 2011 · Kim Jong-il died on Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 69, say state media reports, which blamed "overwork and stress". He will be buried on 28 December.

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