Late Kim Jong-il awarded medal ahead of 60th Korean war commemorations

[JPL]

It appears that North Korea has established a new medal to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Korean war.

North Korea has awarded late leader Kim Jong-Il a new medal, state media said, as Pyongyang gears up to mark 60 years since the Korean War ended. The presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, or parliament, passed the order on Kim - who died of a heart attack in December 2011 - on June 10, the official Korean Central News Agency reported. “Kim Jong-Il was... peerless patriot who smashed the imperialist reactionaries’ moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK [North Korea] with the might of Songun [military-first]” policy, the agency said without giving a name for the medal.

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Jean-Paul