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Kim Jong who? Japanese TV station has egg on its moon face
Jun 12 2009, Hata

Reporting from Seoul — The photograph was considered a journalistic coup, a recent image of the elusive 26-year-old son of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, who has reportedly been named the next leader of the secretive state.

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