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Article: News From the Workers' Paradise of North Korea.(North Korean leader Kim Jong Il)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Kim Jong Il, the beloved leader of the Stalinist workers' paradise of North Korea whose birthday falls on Feb. 16, had a most triumphant year. If you doubt that, ask the Korea News Service, or KNS, which regularly releases descriptions of the beloved leader's achievements -- but somehow fails to take notice of such events as the collapse of North Korean industry, the country's severe power shortages and widespread hunger and starvation taking place in the countryside. Here is a chronology of Kim Jong Il's 1998:
January: The KNS reported that "the whole party, all the army and all the people now are filled with a rock-firm determination to become human bombs and ...