The Easy Comedy of Kim Jong-Il

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The Economist‘s covers are often very funny (though not quite as often as the editors of The Economist think they are) — and never more so than when they feature Kim Jong-Il.

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With all the chuckling it’s easy to forget he’s actually much more dangerous than Saddam ever was–his recent bout of projectile dysfunction notwithstanding.

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