Great Leader

Posted on 10/22/2007 by Curzon

Just how big is that statue of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang? Peter Hitchens took a trip to the great north and took a picture to show us the statues scale.


About Curzon

Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (1859 - 1925) entered the British House of Commons as a Conservative MP in 1886, where he served as undersecretary of India and Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Viceroy of India at the turn of the 20th century where he delineated the North West Frontier Province, ordered a military expedition to Tibet, and unsuccessfully tried to partition the province of Bengal during his six-year tenure. Curzon served as Leader of the House of Lords in Prime Minister Lloyd George's War Cabinet and became Foreign Secretary in January 1919, where his most famous act was the drawing of the Curzon Line between a new Polish state and Russia. His publications include Russia in Central Asia (1889) and Persia and the Persian Question (1892). In real life, "Curzon" is a US citizen from the East Coast who has been a financial analyst, freelance translator, and university professor; he is currently on assignment in Tokyo.
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4 Responses to Great Leader

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  2. Made in Finland says:
    10/22/2007 at 9:44 am

    Why on Earth was it that North Korea became the ultimate Nineteen Eighty-Four fantasy land? They’ve gone so far in their Big Brother trip that the madness of Stalinism, Maoism and Hitlerism put together pales in comparison. I suppose they are in process of working on some new technology that enables Kim Jong-Il to live forever. In his father’s time, genetic engineering etc. was still too primitive.

    Mankind is capable of astonishing things.

  3. Mihnea Dumitru says:
    10/22/2007 at 12:29 pm

    What Made in Finland said..

  4. Alfred Russel Wallace says:
    10/23/2007 at 11:19 pm

    The leaders of North Korea seems bent on proving that you CAN fool all of the people all of the time… but I imagine they will fail… Sure hope so.