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Kim Jong-Un climbs North Korea's highest mountain

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un views the dawn from the summit of Mt Paektu.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has scaled the country's highest mountain, state-run media said Sunday, arriving at the summit to tell troops that the hike provides mental energy more powerful than nuclear weapons.

A photo of the leader of the isolated state showed a smiling and wind-swept Kim standing on a snow-covered mountaintop, the sun rising behind him.

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