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WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010 – Some deployed servicemembers will not be charged for rest and recuperation leave under a new Defense Department policy. The new policy allows servicemembers in designated areas to go on rest and recuperation leave without charge to their leave accounts. “So in a sense, it is an administrative absence and that’s up to 15 days,” said Sam Retherford, the Defense Department’s director of officer and enlisted personnel management. In the past, the leave was charged to servicemembers’ accounts, though travel time from the theater to the airport closest to their destinations was not charged, Retherford said....

/begin my translation Kim Jong-il Recovering After a Surgery Yonhap News Kim Sung-ho, the spy chief of S. Korea, said (during a briefing to legislators,) "It could be a stroke or a cerebral hemorrhage, but difficult to characterize his condition in a single word," when asked about what exactly Kim Jong-il is suffering from. Furthermore, it was revealed that Kim had undergone surgery by a foreign medical team. Asked about Kim's current condition, he replied, "According to our knowledge, he shows no language deficit, and can move his body." The spy agency went on to explain that Kim Jong-il have...