North Korea backs son after Kim Jong-Il death

Published Tuesday, December 20, 2011

By AFP

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died aged 69 of a heart attack, state media reveal in a shock announcement, plunging the impoverished but nuclear-armed nation into its second dynastic succession.

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