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Article: The real Kim Jong Il Workaholic, micromanager, movie fan
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- October 21, 2003
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Peter Maass
International Herald Tribune
10-21-2003
The Dear Leader is a workaholic. Kim Jong Il sleeps four hours a night, or if he works through the night, as he sometimes does, he sleeps four hours a day. His office is a hive of activity; reports cross his desk at all hours. Dressed as always in his signature khaki jumpsuit, he reads them all, issuing instructions to aides, dashing off handwritten notes or picking up the phone at 3 a.m. and telling subordinates what should lead the news broadcasts or whom to dispatch to a prison camp. His micromanaging style is less Caligula, to whom he has often been compared, and more Jimmy Carter on an authoritarian tear. The Dear Leader, as the ...
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