Person of the Week

Person of the Week
Kim Jong Il, leader of communist North Korea, is having a hard time making totalitarianism pay. Pyongyang is apparently broke, so Kim issued an apology for the kidnapping of 13 Japanese in the '70s, hoping Japan would reciprocate with billions in monetary compensation for its colonization of Korea. Even evil has to pay the rent

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"I hereby declare before you that Iraq is totally clear of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons."
SADDAM HUSSEIN,
Iraqi leader, in a letter to the United Nations...

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