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Chinese Scholar in Jail for Leaking Info on Kim Jong-il’s Health

Scholar Jin Xide, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Japanese Studies, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for leaking the “state secret” that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is gravely ill. Chosun Ilbo reports:Jin (57), who is of ethnic Korean descent, suddenly broke contact during the Lunar New Year’s holidays in 2009 and has not been heard from