North Korea gives ‘gifts of love’ to children ahead of leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday
By APSaturday, February 13, 2010
NKorea gives gifts of love ahead of Kim’s birthday
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has given “gifts of love” to all its children ahead of leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported on the gifts Saturday without further elaboration. Defectors have said cookies and candies were given to children for past holidays.
Kim’s birthday and that of his late father, Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder, are the nation’s biggest holidays. Kim turns 68 on Tuesday.
Communist North Korea has relied on outside food handouts since the mid-1990s, when its economy collapsed due to natural disasters and mismanagement.
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