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Kim Jong-il Part 2: Time to Make a Movie…

Real Dictators

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Kim Il-Sung's Funeral in Pyongyang

Jung-guang-il is a North Korean defector. These days he smuggles DVDs and USB thumb-drives loaded with offline websites such as Wikipedia into North Korea. He remembers the death of Kim Il-sung and how the great leader was inescapably central to life in North Korea. We would put down a rice bowl and say, Dear Leader Kim Il- Sung, thank you. That's how we learned. So unlike what we would think, the majority of North Korean people didn't really think KimIlSung was a very bad person. But at the end, since Kim Jong-il got involved with everything in politics, they became a complete lack of food

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