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Kim Jong Il impoverished, enslaved his people
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died of heart failure at the age of 69. Msnbc's Lynn Berry and NBC's Ian Williams report that the "Dear Leader" has "turned out to be mortal after all."
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