North Korean is saber-rattling by test its missiles and nuclear devices, but can they reach far enough for America to be worried?
A profile of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Il
A profile of North Korea, also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Kim Jong-Il didn't show up to the country's 60th anniversary celebrations, raising speculation that he'd had a stroke, or some sort of shaking palsy that North Korea-watchers speculated would have been deemed an embarrassment to be seen in public.
Japanese Professor Toshimitsu Shigemura thinks that the notorious North Korean dictator has been dead since 2003, and his network of imposters, previously in place for assassination-proofing purposes, has been carrying on his state visits and negotiations.
Kim Jong-Il, the reclusive and eccentric "Dear Leader" and dictator of North Korea, is hardly ever seen in public, even within the closed nation, and his pattern of summits with other world leaders -- plus a myriad of unnamed sources -- has led a Japanese professor and onetime journalist to theorize that body doubles who had been groomed to protect the ruler from assassination have been leading N…
Was it all just a big production, orchestrated by Hollywood fanatic Kim himself, that will prove to be all style and no substance?
A primer on North Korea's leaders, geography, demographics, economy, military, infrastructure, and more.
