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Kim Jong Il |
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Kim Jong Il (1942- )North Korean communist politician, national leader from 1994, when he succeeded his father, Kim Il Sung in what was the first dynastic succession in the communist world. Despite his official designation ‘Dear Leader’, he lacked his father's charisma and did not automatically inherit the public adulation accorded to him. In October 1997 he formally became general secretary of the ruling communist party amid famine in North Korea. Kim Jong Il held a succession of senior party posts from the early 1960s. He was a member of the politburo from 1974 and its controlling inner presidium from 1980 and, although he had received no military training, was made commander-in-chief of the armed forces in 1991. The belief that he masterminded terrorist activities in the 1970s and 1980s made the West apprehensive about the succession. |
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So what conclusion is Kim Jong Il, let alone the Iranians, supposed to reach from this? It's kind of like a medieval kingdom, with Kim Jong Il deciding just about everything," says Ralph Hassig, co-author of North Korea Through the Looking Glass. But when Kim Jong Il refused to allow inspectors access to his facilities, President Bush simply ignored even these minimal demands of the law and sent the $95 million anyway. |
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