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Kim Jong-il Part 1: Birth of North Korea
Real Dictators
The Age of Vask by Paul French
It's february sixteenth, 19 forty one, the height of world war too. And these korean expats are fighting the japanese enemy. They launch guerrilla attacks on their foes before disappearing once more into the forest. But to night, the age of vask is about to become part of a momentous story. In decades to come, kim jung il will return to this region as the all powerful north korean dictator. His luxurious armoured train will roll through the russian wilderness. He'll allow himself to get tantalizingly close, but he'll never return to the site of his birth because it would undermine his regime.
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