From: The Listening Post
North Korea: The cult of the Kims
Revealing the lengths the country’s propaganda department will go to to ensure Kim Jong-un’s image is untarnished.
22 Apr 2012
Revealing the lengths the country’s propaganda department will go to to ensure Kim Jong-un’s image is untarnished.
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