imkevin:


jakelodwick:

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles. Must-see. Via onigiri.
I particularly liked image #8: “North Korean biographers, striving to make Kim his more revered father’s equal, insist a swallow foretold his birth and attribute a spate of superhuman characteristics to him—the ability to manipulate time among them. Defectors have described him as arthritic and illiterate.”


All dictators were once actually beloved leaders.

imkevin:

jakelodwick:

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles. Must-see. Via onigiri.

I particularly liked image #8: “North Korean biographers, striving to make Kim his more revered father’s equal, insist a swallow foretold his birth and attribute a spate of superhuman characteristics to him—the ability to manipulate time among them. Defectors have described him as arthritic and illiterate.”

All dictators were once actually beloved leaders.