Reports from Moscow say that Russian scientists are guiding North Korean doctors in giving Mr. Kim the same treatments that have kept Vladimir Lenin in the pink since 1924.
His bad temper could shake buildings; his cheerier moods could melt ice; and on a visit to South Korea fog shrouded him to keep him safe from snipers.The ideas that guided North Korea from juche, or self-reliance, to songun, or "military first", were also his own great creation, as much as his father's.
"Having Moore's Law as a guide - or as some of us have said, as our guiding north star - has kept us on pace, both in terms of how far we should scale and when we should scale," Mark Bohr, Intel's director of process architecture and integration, tells the BBC.
If architects continue to follow the historic traditions that have guided North American and European building designs, we will continue to see trim, clean, stripped surfaces and dense, crystalline forms - pure cubes and rectangles adorned by an occasional sphere or dome as special centrepieces.
The migrants follow their smuggling guides north beyond the checkpoint, then board vehicles that take them to Houston.
This week, Gary Lincoff — author of the Audubon Society's "Field Guide to North American Mushrooms," past president of the North American Mycological Association, and instructor at the New York Botanical Garden — is visiting City Room, to field your questions about local fungi.
To celebrate us this fall's bumper crop of mushrooms, Gary Lincoff, author of the Audubon Society's "Field Guide to North American Mushrooms," past president of the North American Mycological Association and instructor at the New York Botanical Garden, is identifying your mystery fungi and fielding your questions.
This week, Gary Lincoff — author of the Audubon Society's "Field Guide to North American Mushrooms," past president of the North American Mycological Association, and instructor at the New York Botanical Garden — is visiting City Room, to field your questions about local fungi and, perhaps, to identify that weird spiky blob you took a picture of.
"China is uniquely placed to guide North Korea to a less dangerous place".
If precedent is a guide, North Korea may follow the rocket launch with an underground nuclear test, even if that brings further condemnation.
If similar military campaigns carried out in recent years in South Waziristan, Swat, and Bajaur are any guide, North Waziristan's residents, already among Pakistan's very poorest, are in for a prolonged period of suffering as internal refugees.
