N. Korea Celebrates Kim Jong Il's Birth Anniversary

A firework show that lit up the Pyongyang skyline celebrated the 73rd anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il Sunday night. Kim Jong Il was born February 16, 1941, and died December 17, 2011. The former leader ruled for 17 years, overseeing a period that included a famine in the 1990s that killed hundreds of thousands of people and raised international tensions over the country's attempts to build nuclear weapons. The country's biggest holiday of the...

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