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Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham was an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. Follow him on Twitter.
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Evergreen Michael Malice: Kim Jong Il’s unofficial ghostwriterDespite humor, book on North Korean absurdities has a serious message If some of the stories that the North Koreans told their people about Kim Jong Il's life are true, Michael Malice jokes that everyone in the country would have to be "high-functioning learning disabled.” He points to a story he read from 1982, when the Dear Leader was presiding over the construction of the Tower of the Juche Idea in Pyongyang. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |