Behind the bombast: North Korea’s genteel foreign minister
By Reuters
29 September 2017 |
1:20 pm
The man who called Donald Trump “President Evil” last week is actually a genteel intellectual who studies the memoirs of former U.S. presidents and has taste for fine whisky, according to people who know him.
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