North Korea - Photo -- National Geographic

Photograph by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images

Flowers brighten a memorial to Former President Kim Il Sung, who ruled communist North Korea for nearly 50 years before his death in 1994. His son, Kim Jong Il, now rules the nation.

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