Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader, is dead at age 69
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TOKYO — Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader who threatened the world with his nuclear weapons ambitions and suppressed his own people with imprisonment and isolation, left in the wake of his death Saturday an antiquated country with a power vacuum.
Kim's death raises immediate questions about the future — and the stability — of perhaps the world's most isolated state, which for six decades has been held together by the Kim family personality cult. Kim was deified by state media, described as the "Dear Leader." A weeping television anchor Monday told North Korea of Kim's death.
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