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2009/11/08 10:14 KST
N. Korean leader pulls plug on TV commercials: sources

  
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has sacked his television point man in anger over commercials that made a splash earlier this year by promoting the communist state's beer and other local products, sources here said Sunday.

"Recently, Kim saw the commercials while watching TV. He was enraged, asking where the commercials came from and describing them as the prototype of China's early reforms," one source said.