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Photo from Reuters Tough news for North Korea's dictator North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer and the illness is life-threatening, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday based on information gathered by Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources. Kim's health is one of the most closely guarded secrets in the reclusive communist state. Kim, 67, was widely thought to have suffered a stroke last year, but there has never been official confirmation.

He made a rare public appearance yesterday, and the reason why North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has made a rare public appearance for commemorations of the 15th anniversary of his father's death.

And continuing from the post right below this one, Ahmadinejad gets brazen with Obama again: President Ahmadinejad on Thursday criticised US President Barack Obama for his condemnation earlier this week of the violence in Iran. "Our question is why he fell into this trap and said things that previously [former US President George W] Bush used to say," he was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying. And Kim Jong II throws his two cents in, threatening major nuclear warnings based off the U.S. and South korea striking a deal. You got to love these leaders and their bluster. And you love their bluster even more, because if it wasn't bluster, this world would be in much more calamity than it already is in.