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Pyongyang citizens grieve as they visit a portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on display in the plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. (AP Photo)

South Korea questions story of Kim Jong Il's death

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 11:02am

SEOUL -- In life -- and now even in death -- Kim Jong Il's whereabouts have always been a guessing game.

Is he here, or over there? No! Wait, there he is! Poof!

Inside his Hermit Kingdom, press pictures released of Kim were always undated. Live-television images of the "Dear Leader" were pretty much verboten.

Now, South Korean intelligence officials are even casting doubt on Pyongyang's official story line that the 69-year-old Kim died of a heart attack while working aboard a moving train Saturday morning.

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South Korean soldiers remove debris around a wrecked vehicle after a landslide caused by heavy rains in in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. A quick blast of heavy rain sent landslides barreling through South Korea's capital and a northern town Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

Rains, mudslides submerge SKorean capital, kill 36

Sam Kim The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 12:02pm

SEOUL, South Korea -- Walls of mud barreling down a hill buried 10 college students sleeping in a resort cabin and flash floods submerged the streets and subway stations in Seoul, killing at least 36 people Wednesday in South Korea's heaviest rains this year.

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South Korea to hold high-level talks with the North

John M. Gilonna, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 10:41am

SEOUL -- Signaling a possible diplomatic thaw after months of tension on the Korean peninsula, South Korea on Thursday agreed to hold high-level military talks with North Korea despite a November attack by the North that killed four people on a disputed South Korean island.

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Obama: Strong US economy key to global recovery

Erica Werner

Last updated Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 9:18am

SEOUL, South Korea -- President Barack Obama said a strong, job-creating economy in the United States would be the country's most important contribution to a global recovery as he pleaded with world leaders to work together despite sharp differences.

Arriving in South Korea on Wednesday for the G-20 summit, Obama is expected to find himself on the defensive because of plans by the Federal Reserve to buy $600 billion in long-term government bonds to try to drive down interest rates, spur lending and boost the U.S. economy. Some other nations complain that the move will give American goods an unfair advantage.

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