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

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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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By Meee!!, on 09/21/2009

Chavez is dangerous because, unlike freely elected Latin American socialist leaders before him, such as Chile's Allende, he has had the foresight to protect himself against the anti-democratic forces of U.S. capitalist imperialism. The fact that Iran is among his allies should be no surprise at all to anyone who knows the history of our meddling in Iran over 25 years prior to their takeover of our embassy. The name of one of that coup's biggest proponents, Rockefeller, is synonymous with greed

By 6Osrad, on 05/10/2008

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