This undated picture released from Korean Central News Agency on November 5, 2008 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (C) posing with soldiers as he inspects a drill ground of a sub-unit of Korean People's Army Unit 534 at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea reported more public appearances by its leader Kim Jong-Il in an apparent continuing attempt to counter reports that he has suffered a stroke. Getty Images logo Getty Images 15 months ago

This undated picture released from Korean Central News Agency on November 5, 2008 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (C) posing with soldiers as he inspects a drill ground of a sub-unit of Korean People's Army Unit 534 at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea reported more public appearances by its leader Kim Jong-Il in an apparent continuing attempt to counter reports that he has suffered a stroke.

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  1. In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 photo provided by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, looks at a gift presented to him by the top Chinese Communist Party official Wang Jiarui, left, during a meeting in an undisclosed location in North Korea.
  2. In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 photo provided by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, smiles with top Chinese Communist Party official Wang Jiarui during a meeting in an undisclosed location in North Korea.
  3. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R) and Wang Jiarui (L), head of a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, walk together for their meeting in Hamheung, northeast of Pyongyang on February 8, 2010 in this photo released by North Korea's KCNA news agency February 9, 2010.
  4. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) and Wang Jiarui (L), head of a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, walk together for their meeting in Hamheung, northeast of Pyongyang on February 8, 2010 in this photo released by North Korea's KCNA news agency February 9, 2010.
  5. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) looks at gifts presented by Wang Jiarui (L), head of a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, during their meeting in Hamheung, northeast of Pyongyang on February 8, 2010 in this photo released by North Korea's KCNA news agency February 9, 2010.
  6. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) looks at gifts presented by Wang Jiarui (L), head of a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, during their meeting in Hamheung, northeast of Pyongyang on February 8, 2010 in this photo released by North Korea's KCNA news agency February 9, 2010.
  7. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) looks at gifts presented by Wang Jiarui (L), head of a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, during their meeting in Hamheung, northeast of Pyongyang on February 8, 2010 in this photo released by North Korea's KCNA news agency February 9, 2010.
  8. Chinese Communist Party international affairs chief Wang Jiarui (L) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) a gift from Chinese President Hu Jintao in this video grab of a still photo taken from a video footage released by KRT on February 9, 2010. Wang met Kim on Monday and a top U.N. political envoy was slated to arrive a day later in a new push to get the reclusive state to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks.
  9. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R) participates in a meeting that the North's KCNA news agency said was with a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led by Wang Jiarui (not pictured), in this photo released by KCNA in Pyongyang early February 9, 2010. KCNA did not state when the picture was taken.
  10. In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea.
  11. In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, looks on during his visit to the renovated Hyangsan Hotel in North Phyongan Province, North Korea.
  12. In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, accompanied by officials, inspects a newly built road in North Phyongan Province, northwest of North Korea. Korea News Service reported this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010.
  13. In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, visits Ryongsong Foodstuff Factory in Pyongyang, North Korea.
  14. In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, visits Pyongyang Flour-Processing Combine in Pyongyang, North Korea.
  15. A South Korean woman looks at the portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, and Kim's late father Kim Il Sung at a unification observation post near the border village of the Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. North Korea celebrated a group of sailors as national heroes for sacrificing their lives to protect portraits of leader Kim Jong Il and his late father even as their ship went down off the Chinese coast last year, state-run media reported Friday.
  16. Portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, and Kim's late father Kim Il Sung hang at a unification observation post near the border village of the Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. North Korea celebrated a group of sailors as national heroes for sacrificing their lives to protect portraits of leader Kim Jong Il and his late father even as their ship went down off the Chinese coast last year, state-run media reported Friday.

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