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Notable Deaths of Global Leaders in 2011
Kim Jong-il
The man who took power from his father in 1994 ruled North Korea with an iron fist, but was largely loved by masses and had been called by many names such as, Dear Leader, the General, our Father and Generalissimo. The last Stalinist state on earth, North Korea became the latest country to join the nuclear club under Kim Jong. Brinksmanship was the country’s central foreign policy and with its strong internal political strains, the country was in constant confrontation with its immediate neighbor South Korea and its ally United States. Over the years, he developed a strong military arm for the country amounting to about 1 million in strength, the fifth largest in the world. A true film buff, he is said to have a personal library of 20,000 foreign films. The state media announced that the ailing leader Kim Jong-il died from a heart attack on a train on December 17. His youngest and least-known son Kim Jong-un was declared the next leader of the country immediately.
