Dear Leader has left the building: a photo tribute to Kim Jong Il

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Kim Jong Il, 1941 - 2011 Via the Korean Central News Agency: Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, passed away from a great mental and physical strain at 08:30 December 17, 2011, on train during a field guidance tour.  Image: The Economist, June 2000.

Kim Jong Il, 1941 – 2011

Via the Korean Central News Agency:

Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, passed away from a great mental and physical strain at 08:30 December 17, 2011, on train during a field guidance tour.

Image: The Economist, June 2000. (via: futurejournalismproject)

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Kim Jong Il looking at one last thing:

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