SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.
Kim Jong Il, North Korea's dynastic 'Dear Leader,' dies
Sunday, December 18, 2011 | 11:33 p.m. CST;
updated 3:43 p.m. CST, Monday, December 19, 2011
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