Chairman Kim Jong-il ... you thought Saddam was a disturbed individual

Some Background on the man in question
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1131421.stm

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Radio and television sets in North Korea are pre-tuned to government stations that pump out a steady stream of propaganda.

Since the historic Korean summit in Pyongyang, media outlets have toned down their fierce denunciations of the Seoul government.

North Korea\'s economic hardships or devastating famine are not reported.

Ordinary North Koreans caught listening to foreign media broadcasts face harsh punishments, such as forced labour.

The press mainly consists of flattering reports about Kim Jong-il and his daily agenda.

Although North Korea has the internet domain name .kp, no website created and run in the country has been found.

The Story

N Korea \'boosts nuclear arsenal\'

North Korea has said it has finished reprocessing 8,000 nuclear fuel rods, enough to make up to six nuclear bombs.
A senior North Korean official also said that the communist state was in possession of a nuclear deterrent and was continuing to strengthen it.

Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon told the Chinese news agency Xinhua in New York that Pyongyang had no choice because the United States had threatened it with nuclear weapons.

It is the first time Pyongyang has made such an explicit claim in public - even though it has not been independently confirmed.
In a first reaction, a South Korean foreign ministry official said the remarks seemed to be aimed "at increasing North Korea\'s negotiating power" in the continuing stand-off with the United States and its allies over Pyongyang\'s nuclear ambitions.

The fuel rods were stored at North Korea\'s Yongbyon nuclear facility, which was shut down under an agreement with the US in 1994 but has recently been restarted.

Reprocessing the rods would allow the rogue state to separate plutonium from them. This could then be used to make nuclear weapons relatively quickly.

American intelligence has long estimated that North Korea has one or two atom bombs.

Officials say intelligence agencies have been unable to confirm how far North Korea has got but they concede reprocessing could have taken place at secret locations that would be hard to monitor.

North Korea hinted privately earlier this year that it had started reprocessing the rods, though the US and South Korean intelligence agencies said the claims could have been bluster.

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Question... Isn\'t WMD BAD ?

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*Coff* Double Standards *Coff*

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