Bloomberg Bradley Martin 5/16/2007 For decades, tourists visiting North Korea have been brought to a 200-room, 70,000-square-meter palace completed in 1978 that displays presents to Kim Il Sung, the “Great Leader,” who died in 1994. Starting with Joseph Stalin’s 1945 gift of a bulletproof railway carriage, the items include a stuffed bird from American evangelist … Continue reading Kim Jong Il Gets the Gifts, and All North Korea Ends Up Paying