Question:
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Seoul (CNN)North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is continuing to rule with an iron fist, having ordered the execution of about 15 senior officials so far this year, according to an assessment by South Korean intelligence agents, a lawmaker who attended a closed briefing said. 

Shin Kyung-min, a lawmaker with the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, told a handful of reporters that he had been given the information by the South Korean National Intelligence Service. 

CNN cannot independently confirm the executions. The nature of the intelligence supporting the National Intelligence Service allegations was also not immediately clear. North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world. 

According to Shin, intelligence officials say Kim is ruling in an impromptu manner and does not countenance excuses or any views at variance with his own. 

He considers those a challenge to his authority, the intelligence officials said, according to Shin. 

For example, a senior official with Ministry of Forestry was executed for expressing dissatisfaction with the country's forestry program, the lawmaker said. 

North Korean defectors share their ordeals 

The vice chairman of the State Planning Commission was executed because he objected to changing the design of a science and technology hall from a rounded shape to one resembling a flower, the intelligence officials said, according to the lawmaker. 

And in March, according to the South Korean lawmaker, Kim executed on charges of espionage four members of the Unhasu Orchestra, including the general director, because of a scandal, Shin said. 

Kim became North Korea's Supreme Commander in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. According to the National Intelligence Service, he is reported to have executed 17 senior officials in 2012, 10 in 2013 and 41 in 2014. 
1. who is the ruler?
2. when did he come to power?
3. what is his accepted title?
4. of which nation?
5. what was his dad's name?
6. which network is mentioned?
7. is another legislator named in the article
8. his name?
9. is his employer mentioned?
10. who does he work for?
11. did he speak to someone?
12. who?
13. how many?
14. what did he tell them?
15. who gave the info?

Numbered answers:
1. Kim Jong Un
2. December 2011
3. Supreme Commander
4. North Korea
5. Kim Jong Il
6. CNN
7. Yes
8. Shin Kyung-min
9. Yes
10. the New Politics Alliance for Democracy
11. Yes
12. reporters
13. a handful
14. that he had been given information
15. the South Korean National Intelligence Service.


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(CNN) -- Phil Donahue has rarely shied away from controversy. On his long-running syndicated talk show, he debated issues including abortion and the death penalty, and his MSNBC show was canceled in 2003, he maintained, because of his antiwar stand. 

Phil Donahue, right, made "Body of War" about disabled veteran Tomas Young, seated. 

Now the former talk show host has co-directed and co-produced an independent film, "Body of War," about a disabled Iraq war veteran, Tomas Young, who questions the conflict's rationale. 

Young joined the military after the September 11 attacks and was sent to Iraq. After less than a week there, he was shot in the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down. "Body of War" is the story of his coming home and adjusting to his new reality. 

The film has earned excellent reviews and was named best documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review. It airs on The Sundance Channel on Tuesday night. Watch Donahue talk about politics and war » 

Donahue talked about "Body of War" and the recent presidential election on "American Morning" with CNN's Carol Costello. 

CNN: What did you hope to prove by [making "Body of War"]? 

Phil Donahue: Well, this work by ... Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue is our attempt to show the harm in harm's way. In the middle of the most sanitized war of my lifetime, nobody sees this pain. These people are all below the radar. What you see in our film is a drama taking place behind the closed doors of thousands of homes in this country. I'm telling you, less than 5 percent of us have sacrificed, and the American people are not seeing this. I think this is a shame. 
1. Who made "Body of War"?
2. What was it about?
3. What kind of show did Donahue have?
4. Did he still to the easy issues?
5. What were some topics?
6. When was his show canceled?
7. What did Donahue do on the movie?
8. When did Young go in to the military?
9. Was he deployed?
10. Where was he sent?
11. What happened there?
12. After being there how long?
13. What does the movie depict?
14. Has it received good reviews?
15. Anything special to note?
16. When does it air?
17. What channel?
18. Did anyone help Donahue on this film?
19. Who?
20. What did they want to highlight in making this movie?

Numbered answers:
1. Phil Donahue
2. about disabled veteran Tomas Young
3. talk show
4. No
5. abortion and the death penalty
6. 2003
7. co-directed and co-produced a film
8. Young joined the military after the September 11 attacks
9. Yes
10. sent to Iraq
11. he was shot in the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down
12. After less than a week there
13. the story of his coming home and adjusting to his new reality.
14. Yes
15. named best documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review
16. Tuesday night
17. The Sundance Channel
18. Yes
19. Ellen Spiro
20. attempt to show the harm in harm's way


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(CNN) -- A line of angry protesters waving signs and wearing scows formed a ring around the front entrance of the Daily News' headquarters. 

They took turns at the bullhorn accusing the paper of everything from libel to genocide. They didn't bring a list of demands; they weren't looking to negotiate. They had one goal: to shut the paper down forever. 

"We're going to march until the walls come down," one shouted. 

Employees who would normally head out the revolving door to one of the lunch trucks along Broad street developed a taste for cafeteria food that day. 

Not Chuck Stone. 

Stone, senior editor of the newspaper they had pledged to kill, walked out the front entrance and met their scows with a broad smile. Picketers committed to the complete destruction of the Daily News returned his smile or nodded in recognition as they passed him. A few even shook his hand. 

I'll never forget that scene. It was, at once, improbable yet typical of a man who was as comfortable in the salons of power as he was in the embrace of the disadvantaged. 

Chuck was the last man you'd pick out of a lineup of guys suspected of aiding and abetting dangerous felons. In his horn-rimmed glasses, hand-tied, silk bowties and graying crew cut, he looked like a grown-up version of the nerds that tough guys used to beat up to burnish their reps. 

But fugitives who were wanted for vicious assaults and heinous crimes would call Chuck before they called their lawyers. In a town where some cops were known to administer curbside justice, surrendering to Chuck Stone was a way to keep from having their faces rearranged on the way to jail. At least 75 fugitives did just that over Stone's 19-year career. 
1. At what location is the mob?
2. What did most take a turn holding?
3. Who was not deterred by the mob?


Numbered answers:
1. the entrance of the daily news
2. the bullhorn
3. Chuck Stone