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The world's most feared dictator

North Korea is a fable of political theory stretched to madness, a true story of what happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world. Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by the most beautiful girls in the country and stocked with the most expensive delicacies from around the world. Outside, the steel mills shut down, the trains stopped running, the power went out and the hospitals ran out of medicine. When the population threatened to revolt, Kim imposed a reign of terror across the country, deceived the United Nations and plundered the country’s dwindling resources to become a nuclear power. Now tiny bankrupt North Korea is daring to blackmail the military colossus that is the United States. Small, podgy and easily overlooked, Kim Jong emerged from the shadow of his father to lead the most successful and dangerous rogue state of our times.

Rogue Regime: The Continuing Threat
of North Korea
Published by Oxford University Press USA, 2004

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