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Kim Jong-un’s daughter appears in public for the first time
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Eva Deschamps / November 19, 2022
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw Friday’s launch of his “monster missile,” the Hwasong-17, with his daughter making her first public appearance, the official state agency KCNA reported Saturday.
This is an extremely rare occurrence. The KCNA agency had never mentioned Kim Jong-un’s children until now, and the North Korean regime had never even confirmed the existence of a family of the leader. In the photos, he is holding the hand of a young girl wearing a white down jacket and red shoes, whose age is not specified, in front of a huge white and black missile.
Kim Jong-un, grandson of North Korea’s founding father Kim Il-sung, represents the third generation of his family to lead the country. According to South Korean intelligence, the current leader married Ri Sol-ju in 2009, who gave birth to their first child the following year. The second and third children (whose gender is unknown) were born in 2013 and 2017.
According to Soo Kim, a former analyst with the U.S. intelligence agency CIA, Friday’s launch testifies to “the permanence of the Kim regime’s weapons program, as it is integral to its own survival and the continuity of its family rule. »
This even partly answers questions surrounding the succession, the analyst, now at the RAND Corporation, added to AFP. We’ve seen the fourth generation of the Kims with our own eyes. And his daughter, as well as other possible siblings, will certainly be groomed by her father. »
North Korea’s state agency said the missile launched Friday reached “a maximum altitude of 6,040.9 kilometers and traveled a distance of 999.2 kilometers” before “landing accurately on the predefined area” in the East Sea (or Sea of Japan). These data corroborate the estimates given by Seoul and Tokyo on Friday, and are only slightly lower than those of the intercontinental ballistic missile fired by Pyongyang on March 24, which appears to be the country’s most powerful test ever.
The day after his show of force, the dictator promised, according to KCNA, to respond “resolutely to nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons and to a total confrontation with a merciless confrontation”, while denouncing the joint military maneuvers carried out between the United States, South Korea and Japan. A U.S. B-1B bomber was redeployed to the Korean peninsula on Saturday.
The United Nations Security Council announced on Saturday that it would meet on Monday to discuss the situation. North Korea’s missile launches have multiplied and intensified since September, with twenty-three launches on November 2 alone.
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Eva Descamps / February 28, 2024
You’ve seen him in “Star Trek”, “NCIS”, “Grey’s Anatomy” for the series, “Captain Marvel”, “The Recruit”, “Home of the Giants” for the movies… Canadian actor Kenneth Mitchell passed away at the age of 49 this February 24, 2024.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the dec! s of Kenneth Alexander Mitchell, a beloved father, husband, brother, uncle, son and friend,” read a post on his Instagram account announcing the sad news.
In August 2018, Kenneth Mitchell was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He had been in a wheelchair since October 2019. By August 2021, he had lost the use of his voice due to the disease.
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Alexei Navalny’s body handed over to his mother, says Russian opposition leader’s team
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Sylvie Claire / February 28, 2024
Alexei Navalny’s body, which his relatives had been demanding for over a week, has been handed over to his mother, the Russian opposition leader’s spokeswoman said on Saturday.
In recent days, Alexeï Navalny’s team has regularly complained about not having access to the body of the deceased Russian opponent. His relatives had complained that investigators would spend at least 14 days carrying out an “expertise” on his remains before handing them over.
Navalny’s relatives accuse the Kremlin of killing him and trying to cover up his tracks. According to Navalny’s mother, Russia is trying to decompose the body so that it can no longer be examined. Last week, Alexei Navalny’s mother and lawyers were not allowed to enter the morgue.
Eight days after his death, Navalny’s body was returned to his mother. The Russian opponent’s spokeswoman, Kira Iarmich, said on X (ex-Twitter) that she did not yet know whether “the authorities will prevent (the funeral) from taking place as the family wishes and as Alexei deserves ».
Alexei Navalny was the most prominent opposition figure in Russia, where he gained widespread popularity, particularly among the younger generation, thanks to his in-depth investigations into corruption under Vladimir Putin’s regime
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Eva Deschamps / February 16, 2024
Watching a Sylvester Stallone film in VF will never be the same again. Alain Dorval, the French actor who dubbed the American, died on Monday night, his family announced.
Alain Dorval had been battling cancer for several years, which finally claimed his life earlier this week at the Gustave Roussy hospital outside Paris.
He was best known as the French voice of Sylvester Stallone, but also distinguished himself as Tiger in the Fievel saga, and as Pat Hibulaire in the Disney universe.
Fans of the Rocky saga have been in mourning for several months. In October, actor Burt Young, who played Paulie, passed away. In early February, Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed, passed away.
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