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The death of Kim Jong Il was reported by North Korean state television news on 19 December 2011. The presenter Ri Chun-hee announced that he had died on 17 December at 8:30 am of a massive heart attack while travelling by train to an area outside Pyongyang.
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...
North Koreans bowing to the statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument. On 8 July 1994, Kim Il Sung died at the age of 82 from a heart attack. Kim Jong Il had been his father's designated successor as early as 1974, named commander-in-chief in 1991, and became Supreme Leader upon his father's death.
Dec 18, 2011 · CNN — North Korea’s enigmatic leader Kim Jong Il – who, after succeeding his father 17 years ago, captained his poor, closed nation and antagonized its enemies – is dead, state media reported...
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Dec 19, 2011 · Obituary: Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s Enigmatic Strongman - The New York Times. Kim Jong-il, Dictator Who Turned North Korea Into a Nuclear State, Dies. Kim Jong-il, the son of...
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...
Dec 19, 2011 · North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a heart attack at the age of 69, state media have announced. Millions of North Koreans were "engulfed in indescribable sadness", the KCNA state...
