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he stepped into power following the death of his father, kim il-sung who founded the reclusive state in 1948. his funeral will be held on december 28th, a day before a period of official mourning comes to an end. and this is how the news of his death was reported on television in north korea. plenty of emotion on display there. that's hardly surprising considering the cult of personality fostered by the deceased dictator and his followers. whatever you might think of kim jong-il, there was no denying he was an out of the ordinary head of state. let's take a look at the man and his ...

>> with patty hearst now publicly a member of the sla, the group goes deep underground. >> they were always moving around. they would stay in one place for a week or two and then move to another place. >> but the fbi dragnet is tightening, thanks to what they call water gas leads. >> eventually, we started checking out all the new turn-ons of water and gas thinking that they would move in to a new abode and have to turn the gas on and the water on and we got quite near them. we were coming down -- you know, down the street and they got wind of that again and took off. these guys were terribly ...

The owner of the damaged japanese nuclear plant is announcing that it lost $14 billion due to the disaster. overall losses from that disaster are expected to be far bigger, including compensation for the thousands of folks forced to evacuate from their home. the president of the utility which owns the fukushima plant is resigning to take responsibility for the way the disaster was handled. a scathing report on last year's coal mine disaster in west virginia confirms what the victims' families have been saying all along. the mine's owner cared very little about workers' safety. now those fami...

Toxic for thousands of years. but now one project in sweden is offering a solution to the problems posed by radioactive waste. on this week's "eco solutions," we head to a town in southern sweden to see a pilot project that promises to be a world first. >> we've been doing an experiment for some years. >> reporter: deep underground at a lab in a swedish city, dress rehearsals are taking place for what's set to be the world's first permanent solution dealing with the nuclear industry's spent fuel. only two of these testing facilities exist in the world. here at the lab, the ultimate resting pla...

Other things like diesel fuel. there is a push to move a large number of those vehicles off of gasoline andes he will and into natural gas to power them. you're saying to yourself, natural gas, isn't america running out of natural gas? that was the prevailing wisdom until energy companies found an economic way to tap a vast resource deep underground, have a look. >> we are at about 6500 feet. >> reporter: on farm land across apriappalacha, they are tappinga new source. crack it up the right way and this prehistoric seabed becomes an important source of american natural gas, possibly the second...