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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il attends a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (not pictured) at Sosnovy Bor Military Garrison, Zaigrayevsky District, Buryatia outside Ulan-Ude on August 24, 2011. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died aged 69 of a heart attack, state media announced on December 19, 2011, plunging the impoverished but nuclear-armed nation into uncertainty amid a second dynastic succession.
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