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Hitler killed people of different ethnicities and races. But Kim il-Sung and Kim Jong-il put their own people through starvation and horrendous torture. Just because people cannot see this, they find it difficult to believe that such things are going on at the moment. Many people think such things are a...
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Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim; 16 February 1941; official biography claims 1942 – 17 December 2011) was the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK Kim Il-sung following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea,... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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