Kim Jong-Il had nightmares about people stoning him
March 27th, 2011 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, Mar 27 (ANI): North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il, who has ruled the country with iron fist since its founding in 1948, told a visiting businessman he had nightmares of being stoned by angry members of the public in his isolated nation, according to a Seoul lawmaker.
Kim told the late founder of the Hyundai group, Chung Ju-Yung, of having a dream that he was being stoned “first by Americans, second by South Koreans and finally by North Koreans,” said Chung’s son, Grand National Party lawmaker Chung Mong-Joon.
“I think Kim wanted to express that he was well aware of the desperate reality of North Korea,” the younger Chung said in the interview with MBC TV.
He said he had heard the story from his father, who died in 2001.
The late South Korean business tycoon, who spearheaded major inter-Korea economic co-operation projects, visited Pyongyang several times from 1998 to 2000 to meet Kim, The Herald Sun reports.
In one of the meetings, Kim told Chung he was “well aware” that most people in the communist state disliked him, despite pervasive propaganda campaigns that idolise the ruling Kim family, according to Chung’s son. (ANI)
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