6. Kim Jong-Il
Kim Jong-Il succeeded his father, Kim Il Sung, to become North Korea’s supreme leader in 1997. In the midst of the economic hardships his people were suffering, Kim Jong-Il directed a huge portion of the national budget to the creation of nuclear weapons and to the maintaining of a large military. To make his fellow countrymen feel good about their country and their accomplishments, Kim’s government ran a propaganda which depicted the West as their country’s nemesis, and which made them believe that North Korea was the most technologically advanced and the richest country in the whole world.
