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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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Steph Deschamps / July 14, 2024
American actress Shannen Doherty, who came to public attention for her role as Brenda in Beverly Hills 90210, died on Saturday at the age of 53, her agent Leslie Sloane told People magazine on Sunday. She had been suffering from cancer for several years.
“On Saturday, July 13, she lost the fight she had waged for many years against the disease,” said Leslie Sloane.
Born in 1971, Shannen Doherty quickly found her way into the spotlight, starting her career with a role in “Little House on the Prairie” in 1982.
From 1990 to 1994, she played Brenda Walsh in the cult classic “Beverly Hills 90210”, a role that brought her international fame. A few years later, from 1998 to 2001, she became Prue Halliwell in the series “Charmed”. Between several TV films and reality TV experiences, she also reunited with Brenda Walsh in the reboot of the series, “90210” in the late 2000s.
Shannen Doherty had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. Some time later, the disease had returned, at stage 4. The cancer then generalized. She passed away on Saturday, surrounded by her loved ones.
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Steph Deschamps / June 22, 2024
Donald Sutherland, the eclectic actor best known for “The Dirty Dozen” and his role as a dictator in “The Hunger Games”, has died aged 88, his son Kiefer Sutherland announced on Thursday.
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the death of my father,” announced the British-Canadian, also an actor, on X, hailing “one of the most important actors in the history of cinema ».
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Steph Deschamps / June 22, 2024
Donald Sutherland, the eclectic actor best known for “The Dirty Dozen” and his role as a dictator in “The Hunger Games”, has died aged 88, his son Kiefer Sutherland announced on Thursday.
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the death of my father,” announced the British-Canadian, also an actor, on X, hailing “one of the most important actors in the history of cinema ».
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