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36ae357 Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine--some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone--but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him. death 1997 1996 1998 aid famine north-korean-famine kim-il-sung kim-jong-il north-korea propaganda Christopher Hitchens