Nork fiction

Telegraph:

The movie – chronicling the authoritarian leader's "undying feats" and his "extraordinary wisdom and distinguished leadership art, political calibre and noble personality," according to state media – is reminiscent of a 20-part film made the year before his late father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, died of heart failure at age 82.

The retrospective would be a rare acknowledgement that Kim Jong-il, believed to have suffered a stroke nearly a year ago and rumoured to have chronic diabetes and heart disease, is getting on in years. Discussing the health of a man who is the focus of an intense personality cult is taboo in North Korea, and officials routinely deny reports about his ailments.

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Since North Korea is a totalitarian society, it has to create works of fiction like this to excuse dynastic succession. It is pretty pathetic when leaders have to make up a heroic past to justify giving a son the job. It is more evidence of the weakness of the regime.