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“Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.”

—  Kim Jong-un

Source: This is cannot be attributes to Kim Jong-un, this quote comes from movie The Interview (II) (2014)

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3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea 1984

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