North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency said the country had conducted a "target-striking contest" on Saturday morning local time under the direction of Kim, according to a translation of a news release, although it was unclear if the contest was related to the day's military test.
Which is what makes this Republican presidential contest so striking.
This emerging debate suggests that after years in which major party candidates sought to win elections by blurring their differences, these two men are preparing for a contest of striking contrasts.
South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, who faces an internal leadership contest next week, has claimed that his response to the police massacre of 34 striking mineworkers earlier this year proves that democracy is working.
But for the most part, the tone of the debate was as sober as Mr. Cheney's gray suit, a striking contrast to the barely suppressed disdain apparent in Tuesday's contest in Boston.
The 32-year-old could be surplus to requirements at Portman Road, with Michael Chopra, Nathan Ellington and Tamas Priskin contesting the striking places, and might be persuaded to return to his former happy hunting ground at Swansea.
The Carnahan campaign replies that Mr Ashcroft is a religious fanatic who is in the pocket of drug manufacturers and who played politics with race by torpedoing the Senate's appointment of a black judge from the state.Despite the animosity, however, the most striking feature of the Senate contest is the extent to which it is animated by the same issues that dominate the presidential campaign.
The Oxley-Tauzin contest provides the most striking example of the phenomenon here this week, but other lawmakers are also using the occasion to solicit special interest money, often from industries they oversee.
Every year, fluid dynamicists, many of whom appear to be frustrated artists, enter the most striking still and moving images in a contest run by the American Institute of Physics Division of Fluid Dynamics.
To my ear, an especially striking part of the language of this year's presidential contest has been Mr. Gore's use of the word "fight".
"One of the most striking things about Election Day 2012, and every presidential contest in recent memory, is how different the experience of voting can be from one community to the next," the report explains.
