Kim Yong-un: the life of North Korea’s monstrous leader

31 July 2019, The Tablet

Welcome to an excellent biography of Kim Jong Un: despot, murderer, supreme ruler of a pariah state that threatens the world with nuclear weapons, recently turned best buddy of President Donald Trump.

If you are a collector of grandiloquent titles, it is surely hard to beat the ­following: Invincible and Triumphant General, Guardian of Justice, the Best Incarnation of Love, the Decisive and Magnanimous Leader, the Guiding Ray of Sun, the Sun of Mankind. All the more impressive that all these titles were bestowed on the same person: Kim Jong Un

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