Ocupation: Author
Life: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
Birthday: April 13
Death: December 15
Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.
source: Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd
topic: Kim Il Sung, North Korean