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TOKYO--North Korean President Kim Il Sung has died, Japan's Kyodo News Service said this morning, quoting the South Korean Defense Ministry in Seoul...
...Kyodo's report said that North Korean guards were broadcasting over loudspeakers across the demilitarized zone that Kim perished in a "shoot...
...Peking and Hanoi, including those of Communist organs favored by the regimes. Isao Takano, 35, Hanoi correspondent for Japan's Communist daily Akahata, became the war's first press casualty last week when he was killed by a Chinese sniper's bullet at Lang Son. The Kyodo news agency first reported the original invasion. Tokyo's military sources also proved useful in tracing Soviet naval movements in the area...
Last week the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that another of Chiang Ch'ing's protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...
...about its leaders in general. He played on this theme last week at his press conference by accusing the party bosses of dictatorially trying to control events through an agreement among themselves. That may prove to be a persuasive point with the public. A recent poll conducted by the Kyodo News Service indicated that only 12% of the Japanese people thought Miki should step down, while 64% felt he should remain in office until the fall...