Ardent communist leader of North Korea Kim Jong II has died today, in Europe the anti-communist Vaclav Havel once president of the Czech Republica has also died.
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Vaclav Havel, an anti-Communist playwright who became Czech president and a worldwide symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless “Velvet Revolution,” died at the age of 75 on Sunday.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions for his isolated communist nation dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.
