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North Korea to release prisoners for dead leaders' birthdays

Pardons will be issued from Feb. 1.

North Korea's Leader Kim Jong Il is Dead

his 25 April 2007 picture, released from Korean Central News Agency 26 April, shows North Korean soldiers, carrying a large portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, marching during a grand military parade to celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the KPA at the Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang.

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