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How dear departed Kim Jong Il is bankrupting N Korea
December 07, 2012

South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reports that North Korea may be spending millions of dollars in remembrance of its late leader, Kim Jong Il.The paper quotes an unnamed source in North Korea who said that a 75-foot bronze statue of the late "Dear Leader" erected in April cost $10 million, adding that seven other statues of Kim, who died in December 2011, built around the country cost another $50 million altogether. Read
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