article_snippet: A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION .
article_snippet: (Penguin/Viking £14.99) Were A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION not for the fact that North Korea is despicably tragic, North Korea would be comical in the extreme.
article_snippet: As a nation, North Korea is so hermetically sealed
article_snippet: KIM could control the weather and catch rainbows with KIM bare hands.
article_snippet: The North Koreans believe that The North Koreans Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il, who died in 2011, was descended from an egg impregnated by the sun .
article_snippet: Such was (and is) the potency of North Korea’s messianic cult, however, that dare to laugh at such claims and a prison camp — or ‘custody management centre’ or ‘enlightenment centre’ — awaits.
article_snippet: The Ministry for the Protection of State Security rounds up people who have used more than the allocated quota of electricity, or have been accused of wearing blue jeans, growing their hair too long, reading a foreign newspaper or cracking jokes about KIM’s appearance
article_snippet: (Kim Jong-Il’s son, the latest dictator, Kim Jong-Un, is another squat little monster,
article_snippet: There are no trials — simply the whim of the current KIM.
article_snippet: In this evil hell-hole in Kim Jong-Il’s time, ‘chatter, laughter and singing were forbidden’.
article_snippet: If Kim Jong-Il had one weakness, however, it was for the movies.
article_snippet: Though Kim Jong-Il had personal control over huge armies and a nuclear arsenal, Kim Jong-Il
article_snippet: Kim Jong-Il favourite stars were Sean Connery and Elizabeth Taylor’.
article_snippet: — though Kim Jong-Il was permitted to screen such incendiary foreign fare.
article_snippet: It was a rule that North Korea was always to be shown in rich sunshine.
article_snippet: Choi was made to memorise passages from hagiographies of Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Il equally demented father Kim Il-Sung.
article_snippet: mice — Kim indulged mice — Kim with imported exotic foodstuffs.
article_snippet: Kim Jong-Il (left) is seen Kim Jong-Il (left) with Kim Jong-Il (left) son, Kim Jong-Un (right) who is now The Dear Leader since The Dear Leader father's death .