kim jong-il died two days ago. two full days went by before the a initial announcement came out. that s how tightly controlled the media is there. when it did arrive, his blinkered and brainwashed followers mourned him like the god they had been told he was. the grieving as you would imagine is intense for a leader they had been told first walked at three weeks of age. talked at two months and authored, not read but authored 1500 books while in college. those who are not overcome were simply dumb struck on receiving the news. like this gathering. they, like most north koreans not aware that eschar offed lobsters and had cognac while north koreans starved to death during the familiar inhis economic policies created. the mourners who made their way by the masses past a statue of kim il-sung did not know how how it is. when kim il-sung died, north koreans were told that a thousand white cranes tried to carry him off to heaven but were prevented from doing so by the pull of his
they say that a newly discovered planet yoorbiting gliese s gravy is similar to that earth of which would make atmosphere possible and life could be sustained in such an environment. two other previously detected planets may also contain life but the astronomers say that this most recent find offers better conditions. the exist tense of water and an atmosphere on the planet has not yet been confirmed. nasa says more research is need to back up the astronomers theory. three of the four japanese detained in china have been released but one man remains in custody. the four were detained in shijiazhuang, hebei province, in september, suspected of videotaping a military area. they work for japanese construction company fujita corporation and its shanghai subsidiary. the three released have already arrived in shanghai. a chinese forei mintry spokesrson jiang yu touched on the status of the man who remains in detention. the spokesperson talked about improving china-japan relati