The rumors remained unconfirmed, but have attracted much attention, when the press began to recount.
However, many users of the Twitter platform that rumors were rampant, are cautious, being aware that news of this magnitude can spread without plausible evidence.

A U.S. official said he found evidence that North Korean leader is dead, CNN.

“The society that you can never be 100% sure, but we have no proof of this information. It is a closed society, but at this time believe that the information is true,” he said.

“There is no evidence of movement of Korean forces or activity which may be associated with agitation a calculated assassinations,” the U.S. official said.

Kim Jong-one succeeded his father, who died on December 17 because of a heart attack at age 69. Kim Jong-un was born on January 8, but Pyongyang has never said that is his birth year. Experts who study estimated that the country has over 25 years and less than 30.

Since the death of his father’s official press – the existing one in North Korea – has launched a campaign to create a cult of personality around young leader, as happened previously with his father and grandfather.

The maintain started in The far east last night and quickly published on Twitter content and The far east micro-blogging websites.

Due to the problems of making sure information from the ultra-secretive govt of Northern Southern region korea, information companies were incapable to debunk the rumour.

But U.S. authorities said that they considered the maintain to be incorrect, and had seen no proof of ‘abnormal activity’ in Northern Southern region korea.

The maintain that Kim, better innovator of Northern Southern region korea since the loss of life of his dad Kim Jong Il in January, had passed away seemingly came from a concept sent out by a man who performs near the nation’s embassy in China.

He published on Sina Weibo: ‘Downstairs from the workplace, the vehicles at the Japanese embassy are improving quickly, now there are over 30 vehicles. It’s the first time I’ve seen this scenario, did something occur in Korea?’

This seemingly simple concern, supported by other witnesses who saw an uncommon variety of vehicles at the embassy, was amplified by the power of internet news into a rumour that Kim had been assassinated by gunmen who rush in his room and were therefore murdered by his security officers.

Wilder professionals even unique the expected killing in to a larger maintain that a hen house was going in Northern Southern region korea which could depose the Kim empire, kings of the nation ever since it divided with the south in 1948.

But when ABC News requested U.S. authorities for verification of the killing speculation, one simply informed them, ‘There’s nothing to this.’

Another formal said: ‘Our professionals are tracking the scenario and we see no irregular action on the [Korean] peninsula and nothing that breaks that twitter as precise.’

It was believed that the loss of life of the older Kim would herald a interval of uncertainty, possibly creating program modify, but those objectives have not been satisfied.

A less extraordinary but similarly uncommon description for the high variety of vehicles at the Northern Japanese embassy was recommended by Gawker and The far east information organization Arizona.

They outlined that this 30 days would have been the 70th wedding of Kim Jong Il, and a lot of activities such as around The far east and Northern Southern region korea are set to level the anniversary.

So perhaps the improved action at the embassy was not to do with the present innovator, but with his deceased dad – in fact, it is not even obvious whether or not Kim Jong Un is currently in The far east.

The growing speed of speculation details to the rate at which incorrect information can rate throughout the world via public support systems and online information resources.

It also best parts the improving significance of The far east micro-blogs, known as weibo, which are more gently controlled than other The far east press.

Weibo and Twitter content seem to have fed off each other in the case of the Kim speculation, as most tweets about the statements indicated to weibo as their resources, while The far east content regularly described Twitter content to back up their own reliability.

Kim Jong Il, b. Feb. 16, 1941, d. Dec. 17, 2011, was the oldest son of North Korea’s founder and longtime leader Kim Il Sung; he gradually assumed control of his country’s government following the death of his father, on July 8, 1994. His accession to power was the first dynastic succession in a Communist country. Relatively little was known of him and his highly secretive regime. In North Korean propaganda, he was referred to as the “Dear Leader,” in contrast to his father, the “Great Leader.”

Kim Jong Il was officially declared his father’s heir apparent in 1980. He was named commander in chief of the nation’s military in 1991; in 1993 he became head of the National Defense Commission (NDC). In 1997, nearly four years after his father’s death amid a nationwide famine, he was finally appointed party leader. He was elected to the legislature in 1998. In September of that year, the legislature effectively abolished the post of president. (The late Kim Il Sung was named “eternal president.”) It then reelected Kim Jong Il as head of the newly strengthened NDC. This, in effect, became the highest government office in the nation.

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As North Korea’s leader, the initially reclusive Kim Jong Il gradually moved to open the country to foreign aid and investment in an effort to rebuild the shattered economy. This effort reached a high point in the first-ever summit between the leaders of North and South Korea, held in Pyongyang (the capital of North Korea) in June 2000. The two leaders signed a joint statement calling for national reunification. They also permitted brief reunions for families that had been divided since the Korean War. The summit raised new hopes for peace and opened the doors for South Korean investment in the North. But the two nations were still formally at war. North Korea’s society remained under rigid government control. Kim (who was accused of supporting terrorist attacks against South Korea) continued skillfully to use brinkmanship and manufactured crises to wring concessions from the outside world.

Kim’s government experimented with limited reforms in an attempt to invigorate the country’s struggling economy. It created a capitalist-style special administrative region on the border with its giant neighbor, China. South Korean tourists, in tightly controlled groups, were permitted to visit Geumgangsan (Diamond Mountain), a site famous for its scenic beauty. South Korean businesses were allowed to open factories just across the border in the Kaesong Industrial region and hire North Korean workers. The basic economy, however, remained rigidly controlled and unproductive. North Korea experienced repeated food shortages.

The Kim regime opposed the U.S. missile-defense system proposed by U.S. president George W. Bush; this was designed in part to defend against North Korean missiles still under development. Bush’s inclusion of North Korea, along with Iraq and Iran, in an “axis of evil,” in January 2002, doubtlessly left Kim suspicious of U.S. intentions, especially after Iraq was invaded the following year. In December 2002 the United States accused North Korea of restarting a nuclear-weapons program that Kim Il Sung had ended under a 1994 accord. Washington suspended oil shipments that it had provided under the same accord. Relations deteriorated rapidly, and the following month North Korea withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States, China, Russia, Japan, and both Koreas held several round of “six-way” talks to address the issue, but they ended inconclusively.

On Feb. 10, 2005, Kim’s government publicly acknowledged that it possessed nuclear weapons. On Oct. 9, 2006, it tested a nuclear device. This led to both additional sanctions and renewed efforts to resolve the situation through diplomacy. In exchange for economic aid, Kim’s government shut down its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon in mid-2007. In October it pledged to declare all aspects of its nuclear program and disable its remaining nuclear facilities. The disabling process proceeded fitfully. Then, in January 2009, Kim canceled a nonaggression pact and all of the other agreements signed by the two Koreas since the 1970s. North Korea conducted another nuclear test and several missile tests in May 2009. Tensions spiraled once again. In March 2010 a North Korean submarine apparently sank a South Korean warship. North Korea shelled a disputed South Korean island on Nov. 23, 2010. In 2011, however, Kim appeared to be seeking reduced tensions and renewed aid once again.

In the meantime, Kim’s health had deteriorated. Outside analysts believed he suffered a serious stroke in 2008, raising concerns about a potential succession crisis. A revised constitution released in September 2009 declared Kim the nation’s supreme leader. Rumors in 2009 suggested that his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, had become heir apparent; this was made official in 2010. The younger Kim, who was believed to be in his mid-twenties and had no military experience, was given the rank of general in the North Korean army. He was also made vice chairman of the party’s Central Military Commission. Some experts believed that North Korea’s more aggressive behavior toward South Korea in these years may have been designed to prove Kim Jong Un’s bona fides as a military leader.

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Some analysts believed that Kim Jong Il intended to retire and turn power over to his son in 2012, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. In this way, Kim Jong Un might avoid the prolonged and uncertain transition that his father had experienced in the early years after 1994. Some also believed that Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law, Jang Song Thaek, would serve as an interim leader or as a power behind the scenes in support of the young successor. Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack, however, on Dec. 17, 2011. The North Korean authorities announced the death and news of Kim Jong Un’s succession two days later.

The F.B.I, Police, Secret Service and the Worlds Government has been busy this year having spent millions of dollars on attacking our greatest enemies, Piracy.

Wikipedia had recently been under fire by SOPA and PIPA with Hollywood and Government backing. In protest, Wikipedia went black for 24 hours. Wikipedia, an information sharing site with NO ads and spyware has been useful for helping people find the information they want without having to visit 20 sites just to find what they want, no its all on one page.

There is no real problem with this because Wikipedia actually cites the sources and gives credit to the Infomation owners so its not really piracy, more like people in the Government wiggling their fingers in the right assholes who get upset when they’re not making money a lot of people don’t have.

Megaupload was another site that was attacked and in an unfortunate timing, was shut down yesterday by F.B.I going around the world. Megaupload was a good site, that had NO ads or spyware or virus’, but just from that, you already know why the Government shut it down, because they couldn’t spy on our activity or promote a million ads on us. Did you know, that if we view an ad for 2 seconds, the promoters make a dollar? Just for 2 seconds. The longer you view the ad, even against your will, the Promoters and the Government make money off it.

Last year, Facebook had revealed their Spyware programing in the website. Facebook is working in cooperation with Google to spy on our activity on the internet. So if you watch porn, Facebook will know and not only that, but they will let all your friends know what kind of porn you’re looking at. Same for Films you are googling and whether or not you are going to download them or not,  facebook will know and so will google and so will the Government.

I used to think that our Free world was great, but now I don’t know. We may be more advanced and free than North Korea, but North Korea is a quiet and cold country who are ok with what they have. Our free world is worse off than North Korea and its because of our own Government that we pay to look after us. They would rather spend billions of dollars on hurting us rather than making the world a better place.

File photo of a man believed to be Kim Jong-Nam the brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Jong-Nam aays reforms needed to avert the collapse of the country’s economy will lead to the end

The eldest brother of North Korea’s new leader says reforms needed to avert the collapse of the country’s economy will lead to the end of its Stalinist regime, according to a book to be published this week.

Kim Jong-Nam, the half brother of Kim Jong-Un who took control of the hermit state on the death of their father last month, says the military has become so powerful it will step in and take over.

The comments come in a book by Yoji Gomi, a Japanese journalist who says he built a relationship with Jong-Nam after the pair met in Beijing in 2004.

“My father Kim Jong-Il and Me” will be published in Japan by Bungeishunju on Friday.

“North Korea is very unstable,” Jong-Nam told Gomi, who interviewed him at length in the Chinese territory of Macau last year.

“My father governed the country with the backing of the military, but the power of the military has become too strong,” he said in Korean. “If the succession ends in failure, the military will wield the real power for sure.”

In the book, based on email exchanges and interviews, Jong-Nam says North Korea’s troubled state-managed economy presented the regime with a dilemma.

Copies of a new book on the eldest son of North Korea’s late leader Kim Jong Il by Tokyo-based journalist Yoji Gomi are sold at a book store in Tokyo as it goes on sale Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. 

“It is obvious that (the) economy will collapse without reforms, but the reforms will lead to a crisis of the collapse of the regime,” Jong-Nam said in the interview carried out before the death of his father Kim Jong-Il on December 17.

He also claimed that his inexperienced brother Jong-Un was likely to be merely a symbol used by ruling elites to maintain their grip on power.

“Anyone with normal thinking would find it difficult to tolerate three generations of hereditary succession,” he said an email, which Gomi says was sent on January 3.

“I question how a young heir with two years (of training as a successor) would be able to inherit… absolute power,” he said.

“It is likely that the existing power elites will succeed my father by keeping the young successor as a symbol.”

Jong-Nam has lived in virtual exile in China for many years after falling out of favour with his father, who in turn inherited the rule of the impoverished country from his own father.

File photo shows Kim Jong-Nam, oldest son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, at Narita airport near Tokyo in 2011. Jong-Nam has secretly visited Pyongyang to pay his last respects,

Jong-Nam did not directly respond to questions over whether he attended the elaborate funeral and memorial ceremony for his father, but Japanese media have said he visited Pyongyang after learning about his father’s death.

Gomi said Jong-Nam may still take the reins of power in the secretive state with the backing of Beijing, which frets that a collapse in the regime could send millions of starving North Koreans over its border and create nuclear havoc on the peninsula.

“He has been protected by the Chinese side,” said Gomi, a senior staff writer at the Tokyo Shimbun who was previously based in Beijing and in Seoul.

“If the Jong-Un regime collapses, (China) appears to be planning to send him to Pyongyang and make him become the next leader,” he said.

Gomi said he had decided to go ahead with publishing the book despite requests from Jong-Nam for a delay.

The buzz about the Hunger Games has been around much longer than before the movie was announced, but why is there such a following for this series? Do we treat it as simply a form of entertainment or do we view it as an allegory for our day and age? These days, the economy is in a rut and world powers are undergoing dramatic upheavals. Seeing the exaggeration of the government and living conditions in the Hunger Games does not seem quite as impossible as it once was. We are even now concerned with what is happening with our military and if our leaders will make the right choices for our country. If anything, the Hunger Games has served as an outlet for these concerns and worries, allowing us to examine our current events in a different light.

Take for instance, the recent death of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Il. His leadership was the very model of Communism. He censored almost everything that entered the country and forbade its citizens from listening to anything but his own propaganda. In the Hunger Games, President Snow prevents the Districts from even thinking freely by forcing them to work long hours and suffer severe punishment, so only that he may live in comfort and remain in power. Kim Jong-Il wanted to remain in power for as long as possible and lived in opulent comfort for most of his leadership. People were punished  or killed for so called crimes against the government. We can only hope that the country has a chance to improve under its new leadership.

As well, with the presidential elections now in full swing, people are worried what will happen to the country and their lives. In Panem, Katniss faces the dilemma that if she kills Snow, he will be replaced. Seeing as his replacement, President Coin, has already made it clear that she despises her, Katniss is forced to make a decision, is the new leader really much better than the old? Likewise, Americans might have complained about most of Obama’s decisions and government, but what if the new president is worse? Is it really better to cast off one man because he made some poor choices only to faced with a new one that is just as bad if not worse? I’m not saying that any of the candidates plan to harm the country but simply to tell people to be aware of their government and to take a second to imagine if they were in the president’s shoes.

There are plenty of comparisons that I could draw from the Hunger Games on current crises and riots going on in the world but I will leave those for you to study yourself. If anything, the Hunger Games has functioned as a cautionary tale as to what can happen if we become slack in our duty to defend our freedoms and to be easily persuaded by any person’s words. The lesson we can all learn from is to treat each other with respect and civility so that we may work together to make our future brighter for future generations.

Harsh regime in Pyongyang and will punish those who have criticized the country’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, while those who tried to leave the country or abroad call will also be “disciplined” North Korean media announced.

After the period of national mourning, the North Korean regime has gone to awarding punishment. Besides those who did not attend the funeral and preferred to stay home, will be punished and those who complained or who were not quite convincing when they mourned.

The country has created an “atmosphere of fear” and do not know yet how many people will be imprisoned, but it is many thousands of citizens.

Meanwhile, the regime is trying to strengthen the personality cult of the new leader. Every day from 7 am until 7 tonight, vehicle walk down busy streets with propaganda messages, proclaiming “greatness” of Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un, the successor to lead the country, and builds a portrait of the legend, as a “genius among geniuses” in military matters, despite the fact that he has no military experience.

Body of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will be permanently displayed alongside that of his father, at Kumsusan museum in Pyongyang.

Embalmed corpse of the leader Kim Il Serum, his father called “eternal president”, is exhibited here since 1994. His son, Kim Jong Il, will be called “eternal leader”.

Kim Jong Il died on December 17 at age 69, after a heart attack during a train journey. His death announcement was made ​​just on 19 December.

THEN, his body was exhibited at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang. The practice of preserving state leaders have done since the days of Lenin in 1924 and Stalin in 1953. Stalin’s body was placed next to Lenin in a meal at Red Square Moscow, but eight years later moved and buried beside the Kremlin wall. Apart from Stalin and Lenin, the bodies of Chinese leader Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese leader also embalmed.

Before embalmed, it is necessary bloodletting until exhausted. This process can last for a year and cost expensive. Embalming Kim Il-sung in 1994, the cost 1 million U.S. dollars. To preserve the Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s biological structure brings experts from Moscow, Russia. While Kim Jong-il is still unknown. Besides embalmed, North Korea plans to set up a statue for remembering figures Jong-il.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Thursday it will enshrine Kim Jong Il’s body in the palace housing his father, the national founder, deepening its veneration of the Kim dynasty as the country transfers power to a third generation of the family.

The country also said it will erect a new Kim Jong Il statue and build “towers to his immortality,” while the ruling party called him “eternal leader” and gave his birthday a new title that underlines his military-first policy and links him more closely to his father, Kim Il Sung, who is still revered as the “eternal president.”

The North’s state media have sought since Kim Jong Il’s death on Dec. 17 to show his son, Kim Jong Un, as a strong, confident military leader, but outside observers are watching to see if he can impose his will over the military and government as strongly as his father did during 17 years of absolute rule.

North Korea has quickly handed Kim Jong Un a slew of his father’s prominent titles and repeatedly connected him with his father and grandfather in an effort to add legitimacy to the young leader. North Korea also has stepped up propaganda praising Kim Jong Il’s works and vowed to uphold his policies in what is seen as an attempt to justify the hereditary power transfer.

On Thursday, the North’s state media called Kim Jong Il the “eternal leader” – reminiscent of his father’s title – and said his body will be displayed at Pyongyang’s Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where the embalmed body of Kim Il Sung has been lying since 1995, a year after he died.

It was unclear whether their bodies would be in the same room.

The new name for Kim Jong Il’s birthday, “Day of the Shining Star,” is another link to Kim Il Sung, whose birthday is called the “Day of the Sun.”

“Shining Star” also was the name given by North Korea to what it says was a satellite it launched into space in April 2009, but that the United States says was a long-range rocket test. The launch stoked regional tensions and earned North Korea international sanctions and condemnation.

The new measures reflect North Korea’s “unanimous desire … to hold the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal leader of the party and the revolution,” the Political Bureau of the Workers’ Party’s Central Committee said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea is boosting “the cult of personality surrounding Kim Jong Il” as it links him with Kim Il Sung, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.

On Thursday, North Korea’s state television showed photos of a smiling Kim Jong Un gesturing in a manner similar to his father and wearing a similar parka as he spoke to military officers and inspected construction sites.

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History of Korean Immigration

The first Korean immigrant to ever come to the U.S. was named Seo Jae-pil or Philip Jaisohn. Seo Jae-pil became a U.S. citizen in 1890 and earned a medical degree from the now-George Washington University in 1892. Seo Jae-pil pressured the U.S. for Korean independence during the Japanese occupation. He died during the Korean war. Other famous Korean immigrants include Ahn Chang Ho and Syngman Rhee, who then became president of South Korea after the Korean war.

During the early 1900s, Korean laborers came to the Hawaii to help fix the problems with Chinese and Japanese workers. After the early 1900s, 1,000 Korean laborers came to San Francisco from Hawaii between the years of 1907 and 1910. These Korean laborers went on to other Pacific states and worked as farmers, mine laborers and helped build the railroads.

Once Korea went under Japanese control in 1910, Korean immigration to the U.S. stopped. The Immgration Act of 1924 (The Oriental Exclusion Act) was passed which banned Korean immigrants from entering the U.S. However, in 1952, The Immigration and Nationality Act was passed which helped Korean Americans to move out into middle-class neighborhoods.

Korean War

The Korean War began as a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. After the Japanese surrendered Korea in 1945, the U.S. divided the Korean peninsula on the 38th degree parallel. The U.S. troops occupied Southern Korea and the Soviets were in Northern Korea. The struggling democracy between both Koreas is what changed their style of government. North Korea became more communist while South Korea became capitalist. The Korean war officially began in 1950 when forces from North Korea invaded the South.

After the Korean war ended in 1953, many Korean women who were wives of American servicemen came to the U.S. There were also some Korean students and professional workers who came to the U.S. for a better way of life. After the Immigration Act of 1965, Korean Americans were the fastest growing ethnic Asian group after Filipino Americans.

Contributions to American Society

Many Korean Americans are entrepreneurs and have small businesses in minority communities. Many major cities such as Los Angeles and New York have Koreatowns dedicated to the Korean American community. Unfortunately, the Koreatown of Los Angeles was damaged by the LA Riots that broke out in April 1992. It has been reported that some Koreans who owned businesses in this district had not returned since the riots.

After the LA Riots of 1992, many Koreans sought to unite with other minorities including African Americans and Hispanics. Some Koreans sought a more conservative approach to define their more conservative views that may have been different from other ethnic groups.

Overall, Koreans have made a difference in American society. Although other Americans will tend to overlook this when viewing Koreans, this cannot be ignored. Korean Americans are still defining themselves in American society like other ethnic Americans. They should be looked at more as Americans rather than immigrants.