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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Profile: Kim Jong-il
by Rattle at 9:17 am EST, Mar 13, 2003

I wonder how he feels about Courvoisier.. Kim Jong-il.. the Ladies Man.

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The little that is known about Kim Jong-il, North Korea's leader, conjures up a caricature of a diminutive playboy, a comic picture at odds with his brutal regime.

Diplomats and escaped dissidents talk of a vain, paranoid, cognac- guzzling hypochondriac.

He is said to wear platform shoes and favour a bouffant hairstyle in order to appear taller than his 5 feet 3 inches.

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Mr Kim also has a reputation as a drinker. He was seen draining 10 glasses of wine during his 2000 summit with the South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and is known to have a taste for Hennessy VSOP cognac.

RE: BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Profile: Kim Jong-il
by Lost at 11:17 am EST, Mar 13, 2003

I get the feeling he's like a large child. I remember reading a story in the Moscow times, when he last visited Moscow, that he was unable to maintain any kind of schedule on his visit. One day he spent in his hotel room, the presidential sweet at the metropole, because he "really liked the steam room."

...Hardly your typical presidential behavior.

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