The eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in a rare television interview Tuesday, shed some light on who might eventually take over leadership of the country. Kim Jong Nam told TV Asahi in Macau that he does not care about politics or succeeding his father. “Personally, I am not interested in this issue (succession),” he said in an interview with the Japanese television network.
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Hillary Clinton: I said no, at first, to secretary of state job
Japanese researcher recalls imprisonment in North Korea
As the trial for two American journalists began Thursday in North Korea, a former Japanese journalist has recounted his experience while he was imprisoned in the country for about two years. “When I was first arrested, I thought my life had ended. I was wondering how I would be killed, by public execution, by poisoning” Takashi Sugishima told CNN in a recent interview.
Obama Cairo Speech Stirs Mixed Feelings in the Holy Land
Bad-boy Symonds axed for alcohol incident
The turbulent cricket career of Andrew Symonds took another twist on Thursday when the Australia all-rounder was sent home from the World Twenty20 tournament in Britain for an "alcohol-related incident". The 33-year-old’s international future is now in grave doubt following the latest in a series of controversies, having only just returned to the national squad after being suspended for missing a team meeting last year.
Families plead for reporters held in N. Korea
Exclusive interview: Edison Chen breaks his silence
He has been at the center of Asia’s biggest sex scandal, but now actor Edison Chen has broken his silence on the public episode that has ended careers and caused him to suffer death threats. Talking exclusively to CNN on his return to Hong Kong, where he had been forging a career in the movies, Chen reveals his side of the scandal that broke in early 2008. It centers on sexually explicit photos of him with other celebrities that appeared on the Internet, leaked by a former employee of a computer repair shop
Roxanne Saberi and How Journalism Works in Iran
Over the past four years, the media has come to see Iran once again in black and white, and almost exclusively through the antics of its bombastic President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. To some degree, Ahmadinejad has invited the oversimplification of Iran with blunt verbal strikes at the West calculated to dominate headlines
Octuplets’ mom signs TV show deal
Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in January, will star in a reality television series about her family, a TV executive said. The Eyeworks executive, who asked not to be named, confirmed a Us magazine report that quoted Suleman’s lawyer, Jeff Czech, saying a deal has been reached after months of negotiations. The “quasi-reality TV series” would be “an arrangement whereby several events in the children’s lives would be filmed in a documentary series,” Czech told Us
Prince Harry: New York trip has been ‘fantastic’
As Britain’s Prince Harry neared the end of his second and final day in New York City on Saturday, he described his experiences as "fantastic." The 24-year-old visited the Harlem Children’s Zone, a nonprofit organization that offers free programs and classes in a low-income area, then went to Governors Island in New York Harbor to play in the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic. Profits from the match will benefit Sentebale, a charity for orphans in Lesotho, Africa, a cause Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, had promoted. The prince was accompanied by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, who also lost his mother when he was young