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BBC articles about the family that rules North Korea:
Kim Jong-il’s son steps closer to power
North Korea leader’s eldest son ‘opposes dynasty’
North Korea’s secretive ‘first family’
There’s a new movie about Empress Myeongseong of Korea (Queen Min), who was assassinated in 1895: The last Joseon empress in jumbled mess of a film
Here’s a trailer for the movie. Even if it’s bad, it still looks pretty good.
The movie “Shadows in the Palace” is “an Agatha Christie country-house mystery transposed to the royal court of Korea’s Joseon dynasty.”