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DICTATORS FROM FATHER TO SON. North Korea’s Supreme Leaders subverted communism, turning it into a dynasty. And are already preparing the next generation.
By Jeremy Andre
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Kim Jong-un hasn’t always had a face. Prior to October 10, 2010, the photos circulating varied, mostly fake, none recent. That day, on the occasion of a parade for the 65e anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the one who has just been appointed vice-president of the Central Military Commission stands for the first time at the podium, in a charcoal gray Mao suit, baby-faced in the middle of old men covered with a wall of decorations. The message is clear: here is the designated successor, now indisputable. A staging prepared over a whole decade.
This is the very unique ideological aberration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the official name of North Korea: while other Marxist regimes condemn…
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