SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was showered with praise at home for his 64th birthday on Thursday but for the outside world the day underscored lingering questions about succession and an unresolved nuclear crisis.
Kim, who often is conspicuously out of sight on a day North Korea calls the "most auspicious holiday of the nation", received congratulatory messages from Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as from a host of communist organisations at home and in countries such as Benin and Laos, official media reported.
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