Kim Jong-il’s Pop Culture Eulogy

The Takeaway

Along with “supreme leader” and “our Father,” Kim Jong-Il was also known as “Dear Leader.” And certainly, there were few tyrants that satirists dearly loved lampooning more than the self-loving, eccentric late dictator. From “co-starring” as the singing antagonist in “Team America: World Police”  to being portrayed as a wife-abducting weatherman on “30 Rock,”  Kim Jong-il’s legacy is in large part an absurd one. Celeste Headlee remembers one of the world’s most eccentric evil dictators.

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