Kim Jong-il Celebrates 69th Birthday -- The Telegraph
Kim Jong-il, North Korea's ailing dictator, celebrated his 69th birthday on Wednesday with a series of lavish public events as his near-bankrupt regime struggled to hide the scale of its crippling food and foreign-exchange shortages.
As the North's state media observed a "solar halo" rising over the Dear Leader's mythical birthplace at Mount Paedku, sources inside North Korea reported that much-anticipated birthday handouts had failed to materialise.
The state media added that "pride and joy" had pervaded the country as officials filled hours of state television professing tearful loyalty to the regime, while the UN reported a mounting food crisis.
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