Ri Chun-hee (L), the main newscaster for North Korea's state TV, plays with her granddaughter in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated picture taken by a North Korean media published in April, 2008. The one certainty in unpredictable North Korea is that if the state detonates a nuclear device or leader Kim Jong-il visits a duck farm, Ri Chun-hee will be on TV boasting about the amazing accomplishment. Most of the outside world have never heard of Ri's name but her blustery reports extolling the accomplishments of the secretive North state have been seen around the globe for decades. Reuters Pictures 2 months ago

Ri Chun-hee (L), the main newscaster for North Korea's state TV, plays with her granddaughter in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated picture taken by a North Korean media published in April, 2008. The one certainty in unpredictable North Korea is that if the state detonates a nuclear device or leader Kim Jong-il visits a duck farm, Ri Chun-hee will be on TV boasting about the amazing accomplishment. Most of the outside world have never heard of Ri's name but her blustery reports extolling the accomplishments of the secretive North state have been seen around the globe for decades.

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  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.
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  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.
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