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His recent behavior and threats seem to have put the hermit state’s young ruler into a corner.

Feb. 16, 2012 A few months after his father's death, new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviewed a parade at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang commemorating what would have been Kim Jong Il's 70th birthday. David Guttenfelder/Associated Press

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