Kim Jong Il

Hyeonseo Lee: Escape, exile and why she misses North Korea

A high-profile North Korean defector’s surprising revelations about life in the Hermit Kingdom

Kim Jong Il: Totalitarian dictator and cinema theorist

North Korea’s odd movie history explains a lot about its fury over The Interview

Newsmakers of the week

Danielle Smith’s offal tweet, Fidel Castro reappears (it seems), and Roberto Luongo a Leaf?

Happy fake birthday, dear departed!

Happy fake birthday, to the late Kim Jong II

Too bad North Koreans celebrated on the wrong date

North Korea’s enduring nightmare

Kim Jong Il’s death may allow Koreans to stir from the nightmare, but it won’t end it

Kim Jong Il: ‘so ronery’

To the West, the North Korean dictator was mostly a collection of stereotypes in a puppet movie

Newsmaker

Newsmakers: July 28-August 4

Sheila Copps stages a comeback, Glenn Beck hits a new low, and Britain’s Royal Rebel says ‘I do’

It doesn't get worse than this

It doesn’t get worse than this

North Korea’s prison camps are larger and more brutal than previously believed

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This week: Newsmakers

The fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit

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Newsmakers

Arnold Schwarzenegger has advice for Russia, Naomi Campbell’s unwitting good deed, and Kim Jong Il’s other son

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Newsmakers

Berlusconi strikes again, Justin Bieber as wedding singer, and B.C. investigates the alleged bunny killer

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What to do about Kim?

Sanctions, diplomacy, force—can anything sway the Dear Leader?