World's Most Dangerous Leaders (page 3 of 5)

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And it smells of sulfur still today.

Kim Jong-il, North Korea

Kim Jong-ilVitals:
  • 65 years old.

  • North Korea's "Dear Leader" since 1997.

  • Portly and very short, with platform shoes and a bouffant hairdo to add height.

  • A reclusive with a history of hedonistic indulgences, including forcibly recruiting women to serve in private "pleasure brigades."

  • According to former CIA psychologist Jerrold Post, a "malignant narcissist" who "can't really empathize with the pain and suffering of others." Seemingly indifferent to three million deaths from starvation during a decade-long (and ongoing) famine, caused largely by his disastrous control of North Korea's economy.
Rap Sheet:
  • Has turned North Korea into the third-largest exporter of opium and heroin and a major methamphetamine trafficker.

  • Promotes big-time counterfeiting business, including a flood of bogus $100 bills (in collusion with Iran) so expertly produced that the U.S. Treasury had to change its design.

  • A major exporter of ballistic missiles and their technology, particularly to Iran.

  • Has a reported store of chemical and biological weapons.

  • Believed to have enough reprocessed plutonium for perhaps a half-dozen nuclear weapons.
Future Threat:
  • Developing an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the western United States.

  • Might assist Iran and other nations hostile to the United States in their quest for nuclear technology.

  • Could transfer nuclear technology, for much-needed cash, to terror groups like Hezbollah and Al Qaeda.

  • Has weapons of mass destruction available to use against the 30,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.

  • Probably least predictable ruler if he feels threatened.
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