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# *DEAR READER: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il*

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March 21, 2014 4 - 5:30 PM EDT 

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Featuring the author **Michael Malice**; and **Doug Bandow**, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by **Caleb O. Brown**, Director of Multimedia, Cato Institute. 

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No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. In his new work, *DEAR READER: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il*, Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the “Incarnation of Love and Morality.” Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, *DEAR READER* is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology, as well as a stranger-than-fiction history of this unique country. Please join us Friday, March 21, at 4:00 p.m., as Malice separates the fact from fiction and explains what life is really like in the least-free nation on earth.

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