Today is Kim Jong-Il’s 69th or 70th birthday (depending on whether you trust North Korean or Soviet records more). From his birth under a double-rainbow to the vast economic and political progress the Korean nation has seen under his benevolent rule, the Dear Leader has lived anything but an ordinary life.
In conjunction with birthday bashes across the prosperous cities of North Korea, we look back at some of the most unthinkable but undeniably real accomplishments of Kim Jong Il.
