>>>No it isn't. The guy's just another fanatical nutjob muslim, and no one take him seriously.
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>>>Tell that to the people who have been murdered or tortured under his rule.
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>>That only reinforces my point. No one is going to take a "president" seriously when his country murdere and/or tortures its citizens.
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>Standard procedure in North Korea.
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>Seems they take dear leader quite seriously.

There was a recent long article in The New Yorker about North Korea. Holy moley. I knew it was bad but didn't know it's this bad.

I was going to post the article, by Barbara Demick, but all they have on their site is an abstract; the full article is available online only to subscribers.