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• Sept. 10: South Koreans watch TV reporting on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea denied that Kim Jong Il is seriously ill, rejecting media reports questioning the leader's health as a 'conspiracy plot,' a news report said.
• Sept. 10: North Korea's No. 2 leader and ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam is pictured during an interview with Kyodo News agency in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim said there is 'no problem' with the supreme leader, and senior diplomat Song Il Ho also said that reports about Kim Jong Il's health are 'not true,' according to Japan's Kyodo News agency.
• In this file photo, Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader, and Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean president, inspect the honor guard at a welcoming ceremony in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Sept. 9: North Korean antiaircraft artillery parades through Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea marked the 60th anniversary of its founding Tuesday amid news reports that the communist country's leader Kim Jong Il did not attend a closely watched parade amid recent speculation that he may be ill.
• Sept. 9: North Korean people gather to watch a military parade through Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.
• Sept. 9: North Korean soldiers parade through Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.
• Sept. 8: In this Korean Central News Agency photo released by Korea News Service in Tokyo, high-ranking North Korean officials and foreign guests sit on stage with backdrop of a giant portrait of late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and its national flag during a national meeting held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the country.
• Sept. 9: North Korean soldiers parade through Kim Il Sung Square.
• Sept. 9: North Korean soldiers on military vehicles parade through Kim Il Sung Square.
• Sept. 9: North Korea marked the 60th anniversary of its founding Tuesday amid news reports that the communist country's leader Kim Jong Il did not attend a closely watched parade amid recent speculation that he may be ill.
• In this file photo, Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s leader, shakes hands with Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea’s president.
• Feb. 26: North Korean commuters peer out from a bus window in Pyongyang.
• Feb. 26: A traffic guard stands in the center of a snowy street in Pyongyang
• Feb. 26: North Koreans bow in front of a statue of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang.
• Feb. 26: Music director Lorin Maazel directs the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Feb. 26: Music director Lorin Maazel, center, holds a bouquet of flowers as North Koreans applaud after the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Feb. 26: The audience stands for the National Anthem of the United States at the start of a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Feb. 26: North Koreans visit a monument for Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Feb. 25: A North Korean woman walks past a staircase with a simulated waterfall at the Mansudae Art Theater in Pyongyang after a performance to entertain the visiting New York Philharmonic orchestra which is beginning a two day visit to North Korea .
• Feb. 25: Members of the New York Philharmonic orchestra wave as they arrive at the airport in Pyongyang for a two day visit to North Korea.
• Feb. 25: A North Korean child stand in front of a building in central Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Feb. 26: North Korean English language students answer a teacher's questions at a classroom in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Feb. 26: Twelve North Korean soldiers climb steps in front of a statue of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea.