Kim Jong Un: A Modern Dictatorship

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One of the most well-known examples of a modern dictatorship is Kim Jong Un’s “leadership” over North Korea. So well known that Hollywood ended up making two satirical films about how poorly North Korea has been lead, one being the assassination of Kim Jong Un called “The Interview” and the other about assassinating his father, Kim Jong Il, called “Team America: World Police”. Kim Jong Un was born into power as an heir to Kim Jong Il and was given the position as supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea following his father’s death. Since then his country has hailed him to god like status and has (like his father before him) continued to indoctrinate his people into following him in the destruction of the United States of

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