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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Many women were linked to Kim Jong Il, but few had any influence

The late North Korean leader reportedly took countless lovers, but most were relegated to background status. The few women whose intimacy with the strongman endured included his longtime partner, Ko Young Hee, mother of his handpicked successor, Kim Jong Un.

In 1967, Kim Young-soon was a dancer in Pyongyang, North Korea, when her best friend visited with crazy news.
"I'm going to live in the 5th House," announced Sung Hye Rim, then a noted North Korean actress, Kim recalled. She was referring to the residence of Kim Jong Il, the crown prince of the Hermit Kingdom, leader in waiting behind his powerful father, Kim Il Sung. To Kim Young-soon, the sudden romance seemed like some perverse fairy tale with little chance of a happy ending.

Worse, the actress was already married.
"I said, 'What about your husband?' But she didn't answer," Kim, a Seoul resident who defected from North Korea a decade ago, said in a recent interview. "So I didn't question her any more."

But there were four women whose intimacy with the strongman endured. In all, they bore Kim at least six children.
That intimacy rarely translated to any real influence with the dictator. Although a high-profile woman has taken center stage in the Kim succession narrative, for the most part, the four lovers endured a life behind the scenes, prisoners in a gilded cage.
Sung was the first of a series of women linked to Kim, who died Dec. 17 of a heart attack at 69. Voracious in his appetite for fine cigars, cognac and young women, Kim reportedly took countless lovers, especially after he assumed control of the regime after his father's death in 1994.

"The women of the palace didn't really have a serious role," said Michael Breen, author of the book "Kim Jong Il: North Korea's Dear Leader." "They might have had pillow-talk influence — you know, 'I don't like this person' or 'I really like that one' — but their roles were predominantly domestic and romantic."

In the Kim dynasty, however, there were notable exceptions. Kim Jong Suk, the first wife of Kim Il Sung, had been a young revolutionary who helped fight the Japanese invaders. The mother of Kim Jong Il, she was idolized as the nation's "Female General" before her death during childbirth in 1949.

And there was Kim Jong Il's longtime partner, Ko Young Hee, mother of Kim Jong Un, the late dictator's youngest son, whom he handpicked to succeed him as the regime's third-generation leader. Some believe that Ko was the love of Kim Jong Il's life, who influenced his decision-making.

"She was the one Kim loved most," Jang Sung-min, author of the book "War and Peace: Where Is North Korea Headed After Kim Jong Il?" said of Ko, who died in Paris in 2004 while being treated for breast cancer.
Once, after Kim had sentenced his brother-in-law, Jang Sung Taek, to house arrest, Ko talked the strongman into granting his relatively early release, Jang asserted. "She told Kim: 'Set him free. You need his talent,'" the author said.

Those words proved prophetic: Jang Sung Taek and his wife, Kim Kyong Hui, the only sister of Kim Jong Il, have become guardians of new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his fragile assumption of power.

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Top 10 World's Important Events 2011 (world, news, report, people, culture, history, humanity)

Present to you a list of the most important, in my view, the events took place in 2011, which for me made a lasting impression.

1. The most shocking event in 2011 will remain in my memory as the announcement of the close cooperation with Nokia and Microsoft. The format of this cooperation is shocking. In fact, Nokia refused to own Symbian operating system and the development of a promising OS Maemo (MeGo), in favor of a single Windows Phone 7, the prospects that a dense fog. I believed until recently that Nokia will make your device running Android, but no, Nokia have decided to make the biggest mistake in their history.

2. Second place avert disaster, which had a strong impact on the electronics market. In the first half of 2011 hit by the tsunami in Japan, has caused hardship for many industrial companies. But this nature is not stopped in the second half of 2011 in Taiwan hit a flood, which resulted in a shortage of hard drives and almost instantaneous increase in their prices. The impact of this flood are still being felt.

3. Third place is deservedly give the company Nvidia, which this year has surprised the world with a platform for handheld devices - Tegra 3, a quad-processor operating with a frequency of 1.3 GHz per core. And already a month sold the first device on the platform - ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime.

4. A lasting impression in 2011 left the company Motorola, perhaps, which showed how the world might look like in the near future, presenting Motorola Laptop Dock - docking a laptop for a smartphone, the latter revives the dock, transforming it into the laptop.

5. On the fifth place is the company to Google, which in 2011 introduced the first version of the operating system Android - 3.0, sharpened only under Tablet PCs. It seems to me, the development of the OS for tablets was carried out in record time, that is very fast.

6. On the sixth place - the announcement of the touchscreen, which does not have to touch it. Presents display by Fogale company at the exhibition CeBIT.

7. Another impressionable announcement in 2011, boasts a French company WYSIPS, showed a prototype solar cell sticking to your mobile phone screen.

8. The indelible impression left in 2011, Samsung Galaxy Note, a device that can seriously be called a smartphone, but the tablet can not say. Galaxy Note this is probably the very middle way between a smartphone and tablet.

9. In 2011, the beauty of the gloss was possible to do directly on the tablet, thanks to Adobe company, which has released Photoshop Remote, you can work with Photoshop directly on the tablet.

10. Well, to finish our wonderful charts a successful attack Apple vs Samsung Company, which was a few months to prohibit the sale of a new tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe and Australia.

Vertu Launches Signature Dragon Collection Phone at $26,800 each

Available in stainless steel emerald, ruby and yellow gold diamond. With Chinese New Year just three weeks away, Vertu celebrates the arrival of Year of the Dragon with the launch of their limited edition Signature Dragon Collection.

This limited edition series will feature a four-claw dragon, which is a 20-stage process and takes 1.5 days to complete. More than four highly-skilled craftsmen are needed to craft the dragon on a single phone, taking a minimum of eight hours of hand-engraving ijust for the scales on the dragon’s body.

Available in stainless steel emerald, black stainless steel ruby and yellow gold diamond, the collection will feature the key design element of the four-claw dragon in silver or yellow gold on the handset’s battery cover and will also showcase the Chinese Dragon character in silver or yellow gold colour ink.

Each yellow gold dragon has to be shipped to Switzerland to receive the 725 hallmark in the Assay Office, before it is returned to the jewellery workshop. After which, each phone is further enhanced with precious stones to add a luxurious touch to this limited collection.
In Singapore itself, 3 sets of the limited edition Signature Dragon Black PVD Stainless Steel Ruby range are available, priced at S$26,800 each.

2012: Micro Projector with an additional battery for Apple iPhone 4, 4S (network, repair, unlock, iOS, Android, google, Auckland)

Sanwa Supply Specialists develops microprojector 400-PRJ011, designed for smartphones and iPhone 4 iPhone 4S. Device has a battery capacity of 2100 mAh, which is enough for two and a half hours of work, and on its charge takes about five hours.

When the micro-projector is turned off, it can be used to charge the device. In this way, the battery can be recharged fully iPhone. The projector can display an image with a resolution of 640x360 pixels, 1000:1 contrast ratio and up to 65 inches. Novelty is equipped with built-in speakers and weighs 100 g.