N. Korea on Kim’s Birthday: Let People Eat, Um, Nothing

North Korea held its usual lavish celebration to mark Kim Jong Il’s 69th birthday today—even though the desperately poor country couldn’t afford to hand out its usual “birthday gift” of food rations to the people. In one northeastern province, even ruling party officials haven’t gotten their gifts, which consist…

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N. Korea on Kim’s Birthday: Let People Eat, Um, Nothing

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