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Open Image ModalAn undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 25, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the Ryangchaek Bearing Factory in North Pyongan province. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Hamhung Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(03 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Hamhung Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(04 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) visiting the Hamhung University of Hydraulic Engineering. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(05 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Hamhung University of Hydraulic Engineering. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(06 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (2nd R) visiting the construction site of Tanchon Port. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(07 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (4th L) visiting the Tanchon Mining Machine Plant. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released by Korean(08 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released by Korean Central News Agency on January 17, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (C) inspecting the Pyongyang Silk Mill factory during a visit to the light industrial establishments in the North Korean capital. North Korea said January 17, it may keep its nuclear weapons even after normalising relations with the United States, staking out a tough position three days before President-elect Barack Obama takes office. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(09 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Paekunsan Combined Foodstuff Factory. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND(10 of31)
Open Image ModalHANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Paekunsan Combined Foodstuff Factory. HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / KNS-KCNA (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated photo released by North Kor(11 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 8, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Vinalon Complex in Hambung City, South Hamgyong Province. North Korea has said it had a secret strike force to counter what it called South Korean plots to topple the regime in Pyongyang. The communist North, which often claims that Seoul's conservative government is plotting against it, said such attempts have 'recently gone beyond the danger line.' AFP PHOTO/KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(12 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 4, 2010 shows North Korean laeder Kim Jong Il inspecting the Wonphyong Taehung Fishery Station in Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture, released from Nort(13 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 11, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Kumsugol revolutionary site in Huichon city in Chagang province of North Korea. North Korea, which habitually protests war games in the democratic South, put its 1.2 million-strong military on alert and said it was abandoning efforts toward nuclear disarmament in response to the start of US joint exercises with South Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(14 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 4, 2010 shows North Korean laeder Kim Jong Il inspecting the Wonphyong Taehung Fishery Station in Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(15 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 4, 2010 shows North Korean laeder Kim Jong Il inspecting the Wonphyong Taehung Fishery Station in Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(16 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 28, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the Command of Navy Combined Unit 587 at undisclosed location in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(17 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on January 13, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting a pig farm built by Large Combined Unit 313 of the Korean People's Army at an undisclosed location in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated photo released by North Kor(18 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on January 11, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (C) inspecting the Kangdong Weak-current Apparatus Factory in Pyingyang. Kim has admitted failing to deliver an acceptable standard of living for the communist nation's people, state media reported January 9, 2010. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(19 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 28, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the Oguk Co-op Farm in Anak County in South Hwanghae province. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated photo released by North Kor(20 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 8, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting the Vinalon Complex in Hambung City, South Hamgyong Province. North Korea has said it had a secret strike force to counter what it called South Korean plots to topple the regime in Pyongyang. The communist North, which often claims that Seoul's conservative government is plotting against it, said such attempts have 'recently gone beyond the danger line.' AFP PHOTO/KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(21 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 28, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the Oguk Co-op Farm in Anak County in South Hwanghae province. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture, released from Nort(22 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 28, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the Oguk Co-op Farm in Anak County in South Hwanghae province. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(23 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 25, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inpsecting the Sinuiju Shoes Factory in North Pyongan province. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(24 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on November 25, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il wearing a straw hat as he visits a factory in North Pyongan province. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(25 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 5, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) inspecting the lodging house of visitors and cultural and welfare facilities, newly built at the side of Lake Samji in the area of Samjiyon in Ryanggang province. Meanwhile China and the US agreed on March 4, 2009 that North Korea should not go ahead with a missile launch, a US envoy said after talks with Chinese officials in Beijing. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(26 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 1, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) visiting the Manpho restaurant in the city of Manpho, in Jagang province. Meanwhile, North Korea on February 28 warned US troops stationed in South Korea to stop 'provocations' in the buffer zone dividing the two Koreas or face a 'resolute counteraction.' AFP PHOTO/KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This recent undated picture released fro(27 of31)
Open Image ModalThis recent undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 25, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) looking at a statue of his mother Kim Jong-Suk as he visits her birthplace in Hoeryong in North Hamkyong province in North Korea. Kim Jong-Il visited several venues in the northeastern province of North Hamkyong where preparations for a controversial rocket launch are under way, state media reported. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(28 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 1, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il visiting the Manpho Smeltery in the city of Manpho, in Jagang province. Meanwhile, North Korea on February 28 warned US troops stationed in South Korea to stop 'provocations' in the buffer zone dividing the two Koreas or face a 'resolute counteraction.' AFP PHOTO/KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North(29 of31)
Open Image ModalThis undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 1, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) inspecting the Manpho spinning mill in the city of Manpho, in Jagang province. Meanwhile, North Korea on February 28 warned US troops stationed in South Korea to stop 'provocations' in the buffer zone dividing the two Koreas or face a 'resolute counteraction.' AFP PHOTO/KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This recent undated picture released fro(30 of31)
Open Image ModalThis recent undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 25, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) visiting his mother Kim Jong Suk's birthplace in Hoeryong in North Hamkyong province in North Korea. Kim Jong-Il visited several venues in the northeastern province of North Hamkyong where preparations for a controversial rocket launch are under way, state media reported. Kim also visited the birthplace in Hoeryong town of his mother Kim Jong-Suk, who died in 1949 when he was seven. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
This recent undated picture released fro(31 of31)
Open Image ModalThis recent undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 25, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) standing infront of a statue of his mother Kim Jong-Suk as he visits her birthplace in Hoeryong in North Hamkyong province in North Korea. Kim Jong-Il visited several venues in the northeastern province of North Hamkyong where preparations for a controversial rocket launch are under way, state media reported. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)