North Korean senior party, army and state officials attend a national meeting to celebrate the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
According to North Korean lore, Kim Jong-il's birth was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a glorious double rainbow and the appearance of a new star.
His official biography says he was born on White-Headed Mountain, the highest peak on the Korean peninsula. On top of the mountain sits the volcanic Heaven Lake.
However, a set of grey and prosaic Soviet Union records say Kim was born in 1941 in the remote Siberian fishing village of Vyatskoye, where his father was commanding a scraggly army battalion made up of Chinese and Korean exiles.
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