Hi-ho, we're going off on a trip to Weirdville with this one, folks! I was just thinking of North Korea yesterday because something is going down in the Hermit Kingdom after Kim Jong-un unloaded on his goons over something related to COVID-19. North Korea officially has no confirmed cases of the virus, but they're probably just not reporting them to the outside world. They aren't nicknamed the Hermit Kingdom for nothing. This did lead me down a line of thought about how devastating the virus could be in that country given how pisspoor it's managed. Famine and mass starvation are common specters there, to the point that malnourishment has successive generations of North Koreans to physically shrink. Somehow, somehow, that reminded me of something I read (and saw) about Kim Il-Sung, the founder of the communist state: the man had a giant tumor on the back of his neck.
No, really, I'm not kidding. Going by the rare photographs, the tumor was about the size of a grapefruit right on the back of his neck. Pictures of his condition were rare because Kim Il-Sung was the leader of a brutal regime and nobody was going to be snapping candids if they didn't want to wind up in a labor camp or in front of a firing squad.
According to Wikipedia, it was a condition called calcinosis, where calcium deposits form on the body. Clearly, milk did not do this man's body any good. Shockingly, this isn't even what killed him in 1994. No, instead he dropped from a heart attack.
I'm posting a couple pictures of it, but I'm putting under a read more because you never know who might be grossed out by something like that.
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| Via Rare Historical Photos. |
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| Via Imgur. |
Good grief. I would sympathy if he hadn't been such a terrible human being. I'm chalking this up to karma.
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