text: As usual, mixing up propaganda and analysis as all those in western media:
  
  The Kim cult owes something to Stalinism, something to messianic Christianity, something to Confucian ancestor worship, something to Indigenous shamanism and something to the emperor worship of the Japanese, who ruled Korea in the first half of the 20th century.
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  True, but isn't worse than Japanese version which has made the similar ridiculous claims, or European ones.
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  This might prod Mr. Kim into taking some reckless action – aiming a missile at Guam, for example – to which the United States would feel it must respond in kind. 
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  This is total nonsense.