The Kim is dead, long live the Kim. No sooner had the death of Kim Jong-il (“the dear leader”) from a heart attack been announced than his son, Kim Jong-un (“the great successor”), had been anointed as the next leader of the world’s only hereditary communist dictatorship. “At the leadership of comrade Kim Jong-un, we have to change sadness to strength and courage and overcome today’s difficulties,” declared the country’s authorities.
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