The despot reportedly brings his own toilet for long trips.
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But it means lousy options for the young despot too.
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These are the acts of a despot, not an elected leader.
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And his own words indicate he is an unstable wannabe despot.
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"Kim Jong Un is a murderous despot and habitual liar," Sen.
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The Lovers and the Despot is now playing in select theaters.
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A prominent political candidate has expressed affinity for a Russian despot.
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Bret Stephens Imagine yourself as Kim Jong-un, North Korean despot.
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His enemies denounce him as a power-hungry despot in the making.
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In exchange, the North Korean despot wants "security guarantees" for his country.
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And his own words indicate that he is an unstable wannabe despot.
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On the contrary, after three meetings the despot is a firm buddy.
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Every despot and demagogue in history has ultimately met a moral resistance.
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An Enlightenment foe of despotism becomes the boy toy of a despot.
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And Venezuela's leftist president, Nicolás Maduro, is increasingly regarded as a despot.
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The Kurds have turned to Syria's despot, Bashar al-Assad, for protection.
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Trump's first gambit was simply to bluster and bait the Korean despot.
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Donald Trump is a classic despot, like a third-world Banana Republic leader.
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Where I saw a despot and aspiring dictator his supporters saw something different.
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Like a despot, the crown prince has a team of killers and kidnappers.
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This does not mean that Trump is a despot or will become one.
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When it comes to shoes in the house, I am an absolute despot.
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These are just a few of the despot double standards currently at play.
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Throughout his presidency, Trump has pursued personal diplomacy with the North Korean despot.
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Nor is there anything to the claim that Trump has acted as a despot.
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I will not, however, be taking my cues about an autocratic despot from her.
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In 2011 mass protests led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, a dreary despot.
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I think Genghis Khan was really the last despot who was also a drunkard.
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Assuming the video is legit, what dishes does one serve to honor a despot?
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An arbitrator awarded former Celebrity Cruises employee Slobodan Despot $10.3 million on June 6.
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The North Korean despot also met with Chinese President Xi Jinping twice in China.
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Stories like The Lovers and the Despot will always be interesting cocktail party fodder.
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However, experts warn the despot is not actually willing to relinquish his nuclear arsenal.
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The king of Burma, they insisted, was a drunk despot with a wicked wife.
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Conservatives were once enraged when Jimmy Carter lavished praise on Romanian despot Nicolae Ceausescu.
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America is far from unique in seeing a faux-populist despot come to power.
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If it does, we could see the despot double standards come into play again.
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Many of his contemporaries labeled him cowardly and vulgar, an illegitimate ruler and despot.
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Mr. Trump himself well understands this longing for the hard hand of the despot.
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They are the actions of a despot engaging in a massive abuse of power.
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That a royal despot is the norm; that freedom, rights and self-governance is better.
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Only when the despot was removed would he put a collar back on, he declared.
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But the despot and his massively corrupt cronies blame everyone but themselves for Venezuela's plight.
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The despot was pictured looking at shoes while his officials stood behind him taking notes.
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It is more dangerous because Trump's despot-coddling America has disappeared as a countervailing force.
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Recently he described Mr Putin not as a despot or tyrant, but as a turnip.
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Even without spin, the summit appeared to be a success for the North Korean despot.
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Bodega Boys, and the musical trio of iLoveMakonnen, Despot, and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.
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The Russian despot is clearly looking at Trump's Democratic rivals for a more amenable partner.
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Trump is expected to meet with the North Korean despot before the end of May.
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Eugene O'Neill's drama about a Pullman porter who becomes an island despot finishes its run.
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But Trump's approach to North Korean nukes shows there's a despot double standard at play.
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Their talks will largely focus on rescheduling the summit between the North Korean despot and Trump.
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Whether Mr Xi is a despot or a frustrated reformer, China is unlikely to loosen up.
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The delegation of regional leaders, acting unusually firmly against a despot, nonetheless went home empty-handed.
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Mr Trump said it was an "honour" to be sitting down with the North Korean despot.
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Unless, then you're just a despot of some sort, that you don't care about the impact.
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Guzman calls Fujimori a despot in democrat's clothing and suggested she was behind his potential disqualification.
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And what of the inscrutable Chairman Kim's conversion to prince of peace from despot of darkness?
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Instead, the despot dopes the masses by putting benzos in their water and hosting incessant raves.
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"Tarare," which has a libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais, dares to show the overthrow of a despot.
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When you're not running world football like a despot, you're spending millions to get Tim Roth to play you in a movie that no one will see, or impersonating Nelly, or appealing your eight-year ban from the sport for running world football like a despot.
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"The Worm" developed an unlikely friendship with Kim after visiting the despot several times in North Korea.
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But just because a leader is cruel doesn't mean he's in imminent danger of becoming a despot.
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A ruthless despot with a history of sponsoring terrorism surrendered his efforts to build a catastrophic weapon.
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"This was a monstrous gaffe by the despot of the Bosphorus," Scheuer told the Passauer Neue Presse.
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How far does Cressida [in The Hunger Games] go to release her homeland from a tyrannical despot?
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Sahra Wagenknecht, of the far-left Linke party, accused Merkel of kowtowing to the "Turkish despot" Erdogan.
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Genocidal monks in Myanmar and a despot in the Philippines had taken a liking to the platform.
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In Libya, during the Arab Spring, she landed a critical interview with the deposed despot Muammar Qaddafi.
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"You've got to give him credit," swooned Trump over North Korean despot Kim Jong Un in January.
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"How do you put logic onto an irrational despot" like North Korea's Kim Jong Un, he asks.
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After years of isolation, the once hermitic despot has now travelled abroad three times in three months.
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The Founders were concerned that a despot might abuse their powers of office to attack political enemies.
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Mr Trump and Kim Jong Un, North Korea's despot, traded insults and threats before meeting in 2018.
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I'm a thermostat despot, with holes in my sweaters and duct-tape patches on my winter gear.
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There is not a despot on the face of the earth who fears Donald Trump's United States.
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It's good to be the king, but what kind of king — or president or despot — should you be?
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Protesters set fire to North Korean flags and photos of Kim Jong Un, the North's blood-drenched despot.
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But the incident has cast a rare spotlight on the activities of the opponents of North Korea's despot.
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Mr Trump's meeting the despot formally known as "little rocket man" will not necessarily be a total flop.
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The despot was even pictured in the driver's seat of a tractor with his hands on the wheel.
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Hyde-Smith and Republicans have also raised questions over Espy's past lobbying contract with a West African despot.
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He was a portly, toppled despot aghast at how stubbornly an intelligent woman refused to defer to him.
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Many Americans felt their government had a moral duty to stand with co-religionists against a Muslim despot.
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Disorientation propagates itself — and disoriented people are more inclined to accept a despot as sole font of truth.
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The song includes lyrics calling President Abraham Lincoln a despot and mentions "northern scum," according to NBC Washington.
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Kim Jong Un met with Xi Jinping just a week after the despot met with President Trump in Singapore.
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And he tweeted an optimistic "meet you there!" message to the despot who's assassinated underlings with anti-aircraft guns.
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As Egypt and Libya recently learned, there is more to ending a dictatorship than getting rid of the despot.
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He has threatened to shoot down any American plane that attacks the forces of Syria's despot, Bashar al-Assad.
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Years earlier, magic had been wiped from Orisha by a despot named King Saran, who massacred every adult maji.
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It was natural to be missing Rapture as you played through Infinite's save-the-girl, stop-the-despot plot.
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For the first few weeks he followed only Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's embattled despot, and Evo Morales, Bolivia's leftist president.
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On the day in 13 that Musk gave his speech at the Gigafactory, he was both despot and savior.
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Mobutu wasn't the only despot to attempt to harness the power of football, with Idi Amin another huge benefactor.
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In tirades more typical of a despot, he has demanded his political foes be investigated by the Justice Department.
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This urbane, gender-switched despot stands for all the crippling forces and events that may freeze humans' fragile souls.
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Provoking a nuclear war with another country is the surest way for a despot to lose power and life.
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Many were pleasantly surprised that Mr Kabila, a despot who had ruled for 18 years, was no longer president.
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He was always there, up on the Robot Wars balcony, dictating to the people like a leather-clad despot.
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In 2015 he won 97.7% of the vote—an even better tally than Syria's despot, Bashar al-Assad, can command.
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It sent a message to Bashar al-Assad, Syria's despot, that America would not tolerate his use of chemical weapons.
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Sansa is not convinced about this new potential queen — she's having enough trouble curbing Jon's despot tendencies as it is!
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You mention Pakistan after 9/11 as an example of the West sometimes being forced to work with a despot.
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Steve is not the maniacal business and design despot the media loves to portray — well, he is, but not always.
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A despot with a messianic streak who aims to rule for ever is not a recipe for long-term stability.
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Also, you're chasing what is definitely not a famous despot, merely an avatar that looks an awfully lot like him.
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ON JANUARY 6th Kim Jong Un, North Korea's young despot, announced that the country had detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
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The Lovers and the Despot documents this bizarre slice of history, from the kidnapping to the filmmaking duo's eventual escape.
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For them, the opening to Cuba is evidence of the president's feckless, despot-coddling, blame-America approach to foreign policy.
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Celebrity's attorneys said the company gave Despot immediate medical care and arranged for further care after he left the Eclipse.
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Some even yearn for the return of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the despot whom they tossed out in 2011.
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We cannot continue the failed practices of half-assed engagement that led to despot dictators, gang violence and rampant intolerance.
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Making Miranda the despot of her tiny kingdom keeps "Haters" from feeling downright cruel to her, but it's still harsh.
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When Islam Karimov, the despot for 27 years, died in 2016, he was succeeded by his prime minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
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Whether it's possible at all if the successor is a close comrade of the fallen despot is an open question.
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Such horrors are why most countries outlawed the use of chemical weapons long ago—and why Syria's despot flouts that ban.
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For they share the same distracting aim: to prove that Mr Trump has already shown himself to be a proto-despot.
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The award came four years after Despot suffered what his attorneys described as a "catastrophic" spinal injury on Celebrity's Eclipse ship.
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It barely survived the rise of a despot named Pol Pot and the genocidal killing fields of his Khmer Rouge regime.
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Like many of the ancient kings of Europe, Kim is a despot willing to murder relatives when his reign is threatened.
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Mr. Markey offers us three theme entries where that phrase is formed phonetically: EX MARX DESPOT, from 17-, 29- and 44A.
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There is a constant duality to Joaquin's world — war and resistance, the hopeful and the tragic, the desperate and the despot.
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The car deposited me just outside the fictional Mayfield, a two-road Oregon saloon town lorded over by an eponymous despot.
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They knew what it was like to live under a despot, and they risked their lives to be free of it.
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" This is a Republican senator -- albeit one who is retiring -- basically calling the Republican President of the United States a "despot.
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What one is seeing are fruits of Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev's leadership after the Uzbek despot Islam Karimov died in 100.
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On the other stand secularists, liberals, and the Kurds of the south-east, who see him as a corrupt and repressive despot.
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Yet unlike in Sudan, where protests forced out a veteran despot, Omar al-Bashir, there are few young folk left in Eritrea.
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And he's giving her all the right advice: If you burn cities, you're no better than any other despot in Westerosi history.
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Mao Zedong was always thus: a despot whose global image was moulded and adapted without regard to the man he really was.
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Vlad was depicted by some historians of that time as "Vlad the Impaler" – a blood-thirsty ruthless despot with murderous political aspirations.
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They have propped up Bashar al-Assad, Syria's blood-spattered despot, and provided men and weapons to help Iraq fight Islamic State.
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The intelligence community's assessment only references Kim's firm commitment to keeping his nuclear program based on what happened to the Libyan despot.
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In the House of Commons, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson described Mugabe as a power-hungry despot who would not be missed.
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To do nothing, and allow the last Constitutional hurdle standing in the way of a despot to slip away, is equally risky.
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Ho Chi Minh, often romanticized as an amiable nationalist, was in fact a merciless despot who inflicted "systemic cruelties" on his people.
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With nowhere else to turn, the Kurds have sought help from Bashar al-Assad, Syria's blood-drenched despot, an enemy of America.
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Republicans who have chosen party and despot over country and law must be made to pay at the ballot box in November.
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For a despot, all of these checks on power must be ignored, undermined or destroyed so that he is all that matters.
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" Rodman has previously spoken fondly of the North Korean dictator, even calling Kim "misunderstood" despite admitting that the despot is probably a "madman.
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The 2016 documentary "The Lovers and the Despot," includes tape, smuggled out of North Korea by the couple, of Kim discussing their kidnapping.
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Yes, Trudeau's 2015 landslide victory was a triumph, most notably because it freed Canada from the unphotogenic grip of Conservative despot Stephen Harper.
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And, though Mr Trump has confessed to falling in love with the young despot, North Korea and America have only just started dating.
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Nor did Mr Mattis address himself directly to Kim Jong-Un, the young, hereditary despot mocked by Mr Trump as "Little Rocket Man".
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Sudan is experiencing something seen in several countries since the Arab spring of 22015: popular protests against an ageing despot precipitating regime change.
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The North Korean despot made the visit because he was reportedly deeply "concerned" about "consumer goods for people's life," Yonhap News Agency reported.
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He'll eat the entire bag, claim he blacked out, and then, like a despot, outlaw chips because the man has no self-control.
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At no point since 1991, when the despot Siad Barre was overthrown by rebels, have Somalis had a government worthy of the name.
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An arbitrator awarded former Celebrity Cruises employee Slobodan Despot $10.3 million, Celebrity's attorneys said in a July 12 petition to cancel the award.
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The award came four years after Despot suffered what his attorneys described as a "catastrophic" spinal injury in a July 10 legal filing.
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THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT In the 1950s, they were the Brad and Angelina of South Korea's film industry, but their romance ended.
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The Democrat's past lobbying contract — and the money he received — with a West African despot also came under intense scrutiny during the campaign.
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OLD SEA DOG crossed nicely at the S in DESPOT, however, I had trouble finding anything that would work with the MARX BROS.
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Thus, a war to overthrow a local despot deemed insufficiently compliant to American interests was packaged as defense against weapons of mass destruction.
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Last Tuesday, the Trump administration borrowed from the despot playbook by boycotting hearings in Washington before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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Slaughter of innocents is acceptable, as long as we are staunchly opposed to the ideological positions or actions of a despot or dictator?
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Kim and Trump met in Singapore last week for a historic summit where the despot pledged to denuclearization in exchange for U.S. security guarantees.
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Donald Trump can't wait to see Kim Jong Un again, after the U.S. President received a "nice letter" from the tyrannical North Korean despot.
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Eritrea is ruled by a despot-for-life whose critics wind up dead or sweating in a gulag of shipping crates in the desert.
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He built a rickety seven-foot riser for his drum kit, so that he towered over his bandmates like some sort of magnificent despot.
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Mr Xi's frustration with North Korea's hereditary despot stands out as "the strongest statement that I have ever heard Xi make", says Mr Baucus.
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Uzbekistan buried Islam Karimov, the blood-drenched despot who ruled the country since independence after the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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They figured if sites or articles could be stored permanently in their original form, they couldn't be changed or eradicated by a future despot.
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Just as easily, a news outlet could portray the summit as a failure, with Trump being duped while providing a despot with international legitimacy.
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However, in the movie's key scene, the fearful peons decide that life under a despot might be preferable to death in a failed rebellion.
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The mistake, he declaimed in the language not of a jeremiad but a despot, was his decision to "allow" negotiations on the nuclear issue.
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The film presents the spectacle of both the lovers and the despot, though it falters in its exploration of the consequences of their collision.
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In a class society, by and large, a despot cannot permanently snuff out various groups' interests without some kind of violent suppression or confrontation.
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But after the Cold War, the West no longer regarded Kenya as a strategic outpost, and Mr. Moi was increasingly seen as a despot.
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Impeachment is a terrible power because it was forged to counter a terrible power: the despot who deems himself to be above the law.
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The need for freedom is tied to our natures, like the intermittent fever for deliverance through a despot, but it's stronger and more enduring.
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Trump may not be a despot, but he is behaving like a despot's apprentice — borrowing tactics from dictators and authoritarian strongmen across the globe.
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He might be delusional, or he might simply be asserting the power to blithely override truth, which is the ultimate privilege of a despot.
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Imagine that Comcast, in response to some completely hypothetical future American despot, is legally forced to block access to the New York Times website.
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"They believe that Trump is somehow this autocratic despot and they're waiting for any words that fill in that narrative," Barron said in an interview.
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As far as we know, his despot father only traveled out of the country by train, and rarely at that, because of fears of assassination.
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The university went through a rough period between 28 and 2200, when it felt compelled to make Idi Amin, a barely literate despot, its chancellor.
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She came to be seen, in Ms Lal's words, as "a gold-digger and schemer", the "besotted" Jahangir as a "drunk, stoned and oversexed despot".
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Syrians had many reasons to revolt against their ruler, Bashar al-Assad, a despot from a religious minority who enforced his rule with mass torture.
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I'm all about balance, too, but when you suggest we over-rely on values to pursue those interests, you sound exactly like a petty despot.
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Imagine a world without diesel fumes, or oil spills, or having to worry about what some despot in an oil-rich country might do next.
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But "Rocket Man," North Korea's Kim Jong Un, is, in fact, a despot with a missile program and pledges to develop a usable hydrogen bomb.
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That meant—despite various feints at creating "intermediary powers" in Russia that could stand between the despot and the people—putting it off for good.
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Cannan and Adam describe The Lovers and the Despot as a film about filmmaking and the dilemma of getting everything you ever wanted—except freedom.
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Cersei frames Stormborn as the daughter of a mad despot who consorts with heathens and has a history of crucifying those who disagree with her.
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In the two-hour documentary entitled "Putin," the despot said he received a call moments before the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
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But on the human rights level, we all have the duty to defend a religious group and people from unspeakable bullying by a governmental despot.
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It is rich to praise Putin for going after ISIS, when his goal is saving the despot who allows him a naval base on the Mediterranean.
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Some hail former Cuban President Fidel Castro, who died Friday at the age of 90, as a revolutionary hero while others abhor him as a despot.
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Fine, there's a fair argument that boring statecraft is far preferable to a power-mad despot with a fire-breathing dragon to back up her words.
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I moved to London, never to return, and she was left to take the spot of Head Girl unopposed, like a cruel despot of my heart.
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"We have a despot as our president, which is really something, and he doesn't seem to care about much except for his own agenda," Kniss said.
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In 2016 Chad's ex-despot, Hissène Habré, was jailed for life by a court in Senegal for the murder of perhaps 40,000 people in the 1980s.
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"This gives each of the five corporations and their leaders more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history," Mr. Bagdikian wrote.
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There are moments in the film when Mahavir does come across as a despot – a man who doesn't even stop to consider what his children want.
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This memoir — at once fascinating, mystifying and distressing — tells the story of a father, Louis Didier, who rules his family with the brutality of a despot.
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And hopefully a couple of years from now we'll look back in history and say, 'Hey, our democracy is incredibly healthy because we survived a despot.
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An over-the-top celebrity chef made famous by Instagram had inadvertently exposed the high life of a leader regarded as a despot by his neighbors.
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I won't have to hear paeans of praise sung for North Korea's ogreish tyrant, or for Turkey's pernicious strongman, or for China's cult-of-personality despot.
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For perhaps the first time in generations, an American leader became the wild card in a conflict typically driven by a brutal, secretive despot in Pyongyang.
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Say what you will about Polanski, as long as it's not "memory was a despot that lived in his house and banged his pots and pans."
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An icon of African anti-colonialism, Mr. Mugabe became a despot and presided over the decline of what had been one of Africa's most prosperous lands.
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Instead, President Donald Trump's second meeting with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un ended in a most uncharacteristic fashion for a showman commander in chief: fizzle.
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This half-baked proposal is something we should expect from a bonkers crazy despot like Castro living in a third-world country, not the president-elect.
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Clearly, Trump thinks holding summits with Kim is a good thing, allowing him to gauge the despot and press him to make some kind of deal.
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Some Senate Republicans cited Kim as a "despot tyrant," but others were reluctant to weigh in on the president's apparent esteem for the North Korean leader.
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Um. Well, everything I know about Kim Jong Un is that he is a despot tyrant and he is harmful to the people of North Korea.
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Don't get me wrong, though: Even if he has a good taste in books, it's 99% likely Commander Lawrence is a despot of at least some variety.
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In the Eastern Conference, that team would be in the Finals for a fifth straight year, more equipped to punch up against the Bay Area's unbeatable despot.
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He is a brutish despot who is about to kill at least one of our favorite characters and rules much of the countryside through violence and extortion.
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At the whim of a supranational European despot, England's metaphorical hurt will be made actual, and the team will be forced to fight Portugal to the death.
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The despot last week was seen visiting industrial facilities, power plants and tourist sites across the country — shifting focus from the regime's nuclear arsenal to its economy.
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They are less like arms-length transactors with the company, than they are like subjects of a despot, whose many roles include consumer and anti-fraud protection.
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Not surprisingly, many Zimbabweans were not convinced that there would be a major difference between the 94-year-old despot and his 75-year-old ex-sidekick.
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Among the numerous productions in which he appeared was "The Feast of the Goat," an adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel about the Dominican despot Rafael Trujillo.
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It was his first public appearance since the military placed him under house arrest — an illustration, perhaps, that this was no ordinary attempt to oust a despot.
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If there's a villain in this book it's "our implacable foe" Vladimir Putin, an "audacious despot" who gets a steady flagellation over the course of two chapters.
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Trump is a democratically elected strongman and Kim is a fratricidal despot, but they both live in bizarro fantasy worlds where lying and cheating is the norm.
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His laudatory words for another despot, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, attracted less attention, though they could well signal a dangerous shift in American policy.
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"I think the greatest progress is our relationship," he said, before praising the iron-fisted despot as a "great leader" who could see his country's economy blossom.
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Trump was surprised by Kim's demand, according to a person familiar with the negotiations, believing the young despot had come to the Vietnamese capital prepared to deal.
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"Chernobyl" This intimate look at the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 showed that the most dangerous monster is not an intergalactic despot or reptilian titan, but human hubris.
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Even as he looks to convince Kim to abandon his nuclear program, however, Trump faces uncertainty about how willing the reclusive despot is to relinquish his stockpiles.
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If that helps to take down a despot who is widely seen as illegitimate and helps create the conditions for democracy, it can serve legitimate democratic rule.
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What would you say to convince me that I'm underestimating the danger of Trump as cunning would-be despot, as opposed to just Trump as "chaos president"?
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This year's games have featured flip-card displays of a meeting in April between the North's despot, Kim Jong Un, and the South's elected president, Moon Jae-in.
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Zimbabwe's official population is nearly 20183m but as many as 5m of its citizens live abroad, having fled an economy ruined by the 94-year-old ex-despot.
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Ten days before its young despot, Kim Jong Un, had marked the 105th birthday of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the country's founder, with a vast military parade.
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When Mr Moon went to Pyongyang this week for his third summit with the North's despot, Mr Shin went along as part of a delegation of business leaders.
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They included Ahmed Sékou Touré, a deranged despot who ruled for 26 years, and a string of grotesquely corrupt military juntas whose soldiers raped and massacred opposition supporters.
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The despot is often photographed with a massive grin and interacting with factory workers as several officials stand in the background taking notes -- about something -- during the visit.
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Louis van Gaal revealed himself to be a demented despot, and no one is sad to see him go even if he did secure an FA Cup victory.
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In September last year he startled the world by ordering Russian air strikes in Syria to prop up the crumbling regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian despot.
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Only then could Kim foresee a future where he is celebrated as the father of economic reform, rather than tolerated as a third-generation despot with nuclear weapons.
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The modern despot, finding that more difficult, foments mistrust of credible fact, thrives on the confusion loosed by social media and fashions the illusion of legitimacy from supplicants.
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This president's confidence in Pompeo is such that he dispatched Pompeo to handle the sensitive portfolio of meeting with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un earlier this month.
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One part of the table will be occupied by Mr. Kim, a young despot atop an insular and impoverished country whose degree of political stability remains a mystery.
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Donald Trump is planning a second meeting with Kim Jong Un — which could seem like rewarding the despot for ignoring denuclearization plans and ramping up his nuclear production.
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Trump acts like a nasty, small-minded despot, not the leader of a democracy more than two centuries old in which rule of law is a sturdy pillar.
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Their piece offers an unfiltered view of the anger that has consumed the president over the Russia inquiry, not to mention caused him to talk like a despot.
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Despite the White House giving Kim a high-profile summit in Singapore last month and suspending U.S. military war games with South Korea, the despot reportedly wants more.
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Mr Kim's aim may be to offer a concession big enough to entice Mr Trump into the kind of protracted negotiation that would suit the North Korean despot nicely.
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Photos released by KCNA showed the despot wearing a white T-shirt and hat — an unusually light and casual outfit, compared to the Mao-style suits he usually wears.
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WHEN the presidential motorcade tears through the posh Borrowdale suburb where Robert Mugabe resides in Harare, all traffic still pulls onto the verge in reluctant deference to the despot.
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The Russian despot Vladimir Lenin once spoke of "useful idiots" who could help the Soviet Union spread its propaganda in the West without knowing they were helping America's enemy.
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Ms. Doria, who died on July 27, at 90, was the longtime director of the Met's children's chorus, by all accounts equal parts den mother, wrangler and benevolent despot.
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He realized that there would never be an "enlightened" despot, and, when the American Revolution happened, he welcomed it in a way he might not have a decade earlier.
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And if we do go to a country ruled by a despot or military junta, will our currency benefit the nation's citizens or only the regime that oppresses them?
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The despot was finally able to disembark later that day and was seen waving at schoolchildren in the border town of Dong Dang — his interpreter hastily by his side.
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In effect, what was intended as a swift operation to pry out a nasty despot has turned into a stalemate while Venezuela further disintegrates, lately with long, debilitating blackouts.
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Sadly, the wreckage of which President Trump is capable has far greater geographic reach and long-lasting effects than anything within the ambit of the most pernicious Roman despot.
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Their common nemesis is an Eastern European despot, a genocidal maniac with a scholarly mien and personal touch played, it seems almost redundant to point out, by Gary Oldman.
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He defended his decision to meet again with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un, while at the same time launching a new attack on Canada, a longtime US ally.
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Widely seen as a disgraced aging despot desperately clinging to power, Mugabe's rule finally came to an end at the hands of the regime he had spent decades building.
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The despot&aposs trip on Tuesday to North Korea differed from the past two meetings because China's state media announced the trip before Kim arrived in Beijing for the meeting.
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That might involve an AU-convened court in another country, as happened with the Chadian despot, Hissène Habré, who was jailed for life this year after a trial in Senegal.
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The administration's current approach is akin to throwing the rule book in the trash and replacing it with a despot who needs to be appeased and coddled at every step.
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Kim Jong Un met with officials from South Korea on Monday, the first meeting between the North Korean despot and representatives from Seoul in the seven years of Kim's leadership.
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After decolonisation, many African leaders saw Kim Il Sung, North Korea's founding despot and the grandfather of its current leader, Kim Jong Un (aka "Rocket Man"), as a natural ally.
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But optimists will remember similar clashes between America's president and Kim Jong Un, North Korea's despot, before they met in Singapore and "fell in love", as Mr Trump put it.
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But in a few years, Kim — the seemingly comical despot with voluminous hair, a taste for cognac, movies and basketball (remember Dennis Rodman?) — is not necessarily a neophyte, if impetuous.
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As the tit-for-tat rhetoric between the reclusive nation and the United States continues to heat up, understanding what makes the North Korean despot tick is paramount, observers say.
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In not yet four months as President, Trump has tested the limits of every institution that exists to prevent the chief executive of the United States from becoming a despot.
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Some saw him as a ruthless despot who trampled rights and freedoms; many others hailed him as the crowds did that first night, as a revolutionary hero for the ages.
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Bernie Sanders offered a partial defense of Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution, asserting that "It's unfair to simply say everything is bad" with the way the late despot ruled the country.
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Indeed, Trump's crisis has best been described as a "slow-motion Cuban missile crisis" — only the crisis-driver is not Fidel Castro, but North Korea's bizarre despot, Kim Jong-un.
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He quickly nationalized industries, seized farms and businesses, pushed through constitutional changes to enhance his power, and, as an emboldened and petty despot, cracked down on dissent of any kind.
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Known as "el Rey Felón" (the Felon King), he was something of a retrograde despot who, as crown prince, conspired against his father, and as king, abolished Spain's first constitution.
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That leaves governments around the world, including the United States', trying to figure out whether they are arresting a fugitive or employing their police for the whims of a despot.
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The despot visited the hospital in Pyongyang to meet the only two survivors of a bus carrying mainly Chinese tourists that plunged off a bridge in North Hwanghae province Sunday.
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The FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton is revealed in full; the death of an Uzbeki despot leaves a power vacuum; the early release of a Stanford rapist lengthens a furious debate.
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Kim was willing to dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear facility — something he flagged months ago — but in return the despot demanded an end to the economic sanctions that are crippling his country.
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Erdogan certainly achieved the first aim, with one German politician dubbing him the "despot on the Bosphorus" and Chancellor Angela Merkel declaring that the remarks only trivialised Nazi crimes against humanity.
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Erdogan certainly achieved the first aim, with one German politician dubbing him the "despot on the Bosphorus" and Chancellor Angela Merkel declaring that the remarks only trivialized Nazi crimes against humanity.
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Kim Jong Un oversaw the testing of a "newly developed ultramodern" tactical weapon, state media reported Friday, days after Donald Trump claimed he was keeping the North Korean despot in line.
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"There's going to be some despot in some African country that gets really upset that they can't control their currency anymore and that's where the real problems start occurring," he explained.
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South Korea, keen to avoid a rift in the run-up to Mr Trump's second summit with Kim Jong Un, North Korea's despot, has duly agreed to pay a little more.
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Her story leads Kirk and crew to a planet where among other things, they encounter a life-draining despot named Krall (Idris Elba) and an angry refugee named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella).
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Espy has also faced his own hurdles, with GOP attacks over a past lobbying contract with a West African despot and previous bribery allegations, though he's been acquitted of all charges.
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" [The New York Times] • Secretly made recordings of Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011, are featured in a new documentary, "The Lovers and the Despot.
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It's one thing to blow up the G-7 with trade wars and make nice with a murderous North Korean despot; it's quite another to disappoint the D.C. conservative legal establishment.
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For the best part of the remaining two hours, Schiff explained in detail why American democracy now and in the future needs to be on guard against a "despot" like Trump.
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In Kim's New Year's Day address, the North Korean despot issued a perfunctory bleat of bellicosity, declaring his nuclear arsenal functional and capable of reaching the entirety of the United States.
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He also told reporters Tuesday that Tillerson wasn't involved in his shock decision to agree to a meeting with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un because Trump made that decision himself.
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With so much about our politics uncertain, particularly pertaining to this region, the spectacle of a rash, sex-crazed despot; ignored prophecies; and their looming, mortal consequences elicited one thought: This?
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In 1931, an academic reviewer describes Chaka as "a behavioristic study of Zulu Life under the despot Chaka" and then goes on to expound upon the "scientific value" of the novel.
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Everything from the size of the negotiating table to a special noodle machine sent from Pyongyang has been arranged, including the use of a portable toilet just for the North Korean despot.
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Trump is hoping to use the summit to push Kim to agree to a timetable for removing his nuclear arsenal, though it remains doubtful the despot will be willing to do so.
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Though the despot&aposs travels were largely publicized upon his arrival for the historic summit with President Trump, details about his departure remained shrouded in secrecy, especially in North Korea, until Monday.
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To his numerous critics, Mr Karimov was a brutal despot who presided over rife human-rights abuses, including the slaughter of protesters by security forces in the city of Andijan in 2005.
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Suppose Syria's despot, Bashar al-Assad, or Sudan's former tyrant, Omar al-Bashir, were to find themselves on trial in The Hague and tried to blame their country's carnage on global warming.
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The idea was that by ignoring Kim Jong-un, America might actually convince the despot to stop building a nuclear arsenal, or at least make him less dead-set on acquiring one.
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The two sides have been negotiating over the North's nuclear-weapons programme since 22016, when Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current despot, Kim Jong Un, was in power (see timeline).
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But then he added that, yes, now you come to mention it, if the North Korean despot wouldn't make a deal in Singapore, his regime would "most likely" have to be "decimated".
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Some hold Plotnitsky in high-esteem as a hero of the separatist cause; others dismiss him as a despot-in-waiting who profits from a murky network of corruption, criminality and patronage.
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But he is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power pauperized one of Africa's most promising states.
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CreditCreditPatrick A. Burns/The New York Times Whatever else he was — liberator, totalitarian despot, bombastic blowhard — Fidel Castro was a showman, and Americans, as we know, can be suckers for a showman.
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To the Editor: Re "Kim's Abrupt Makeover: Lunacy to Diplomacy" (front page, June 7): Only juxtaposition with President Trump makes a despot like Kim Jong-un look normalized — and that's a problem.
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Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen," plays the enlightened despot, known for importing European ideas to Russia and expanding the country's borders.
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Why were so many Egyptians willing to risk everything in 2011, and why, just two years later in July 2013, were so many willing to make another devil's bargain with a despot?
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He urges America to support Egypt's despot, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and wants to wants to "serve notice upon North Korea that it is within reach of American naval air power".
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Frequent clashes To some he was a personable and popular leader who was in touch with the common man, to others he was a despot, one who dealt ruthlessly with his opponents.
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Former workers said that Mr. Meier — a winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's top award, and the designer of notable buildings like the Getty Center in Los Angeles — ruled like a despot.
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Their talks will largely focus on rescheduling the summit between the North Korean despot and President Trump , who canceled the June 12 summit in Singapore last week after hostile rhetoric from North Korea.
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To that end, that idea feels to me like the beginning of civilization is at stake, this new civilization they want to build rather than live this strange half-life serving a despot.
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After all, other than Yanukovich, Manafort had worked for notorious Filipino strongman Ferdinand Marcos, Zairian despot Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, accounting for an awful lot of negative baggage.
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Haftar helped Gaddafi gain power in 1969 before having a falling out with the despot and fleeing to the U.S. He returned to Libya after the 2011 uprising and became a rebel commander.
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He left Zaire, after performing on the occasion of the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" prizefight, rather than receive a bag of diamonds offered by the despot in charge of that nation.
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WASHINGTON — His hand chopping in the air, his voice stern and stalwart, he declared that it was time for the regional despot to go and warned of the consequences if he did not.
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Mr Putin's previous presidential term was built around confrontation with the West: the war against Ukraine in 2014, the intervention to prop up Syria's despot and the meddling in democratic elections in Western countries.
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" If that doesn't happen, Block wrote, "we will find that the west's four decades of engagement with China have provided an autocratic despot with the understanding and resources to make the world less free.
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McConnell is not acting out of secret allegiance to a foreign despot, but out of the much more traditional, and traditionally American, allegiance to making it difficult for certain classes and communities to vote.
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Lazarević held the ancient Byzantine title of despot—equivalent to a prince—and was a major figure in the Order of the Dragon, established in the 15th century to protect Europe from the Ottomans.
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But its setting is Japan: an imaginary town with the snigger-worthy name Titipu, whose infantilized citizens are ruled by a despot — the Mikado — with laws that are as draconian as they are daffy.
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Russia's interference in the 2016 election is part of a wide-ranging campaign to undermine liberal democracy around the globe and promote in its place a dystopian order of graft-ridden, despot-led dictatorships.
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Long enough, perhaps, to organise a referendum on a change to the constitution that would allow him a third term, a trick pulled off across the river in 2015 by Congo-Brazzaville's own veteran despot.
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That last part is not happening: from a recalcitrant young despot, North Korea's Kim Jong Un, on its north-eastern border, to those ungrateful Vietnamese Communists to the south, flirting with America, insolent insubordination abounds.
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Trump wants Sessions gone because he wants special counsel Robert Mueller gone, but he seems to realize that firing Sessions in an attempt to end the Russia investigation would make him look like a despot.
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" Trump's praise for Kim immediately provoked a backlash by those who thought that celebrating a brutal despot was unworthy of an American president: Trump on Kim: "A talented man who loves his country very much.
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That year, Kim Jong Il, the father of the current youthful despot and second hereditary ruler of the dystopian dynasty that is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, set a new standard in international shakedown.
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The last, in October 2007, featured South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and the second-generational North Korean despot, Kim Jong Il. Wishing to present a special banquet for his host, Roh went all out.
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West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump offered a bullish view on Wednesday of his planned talks with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un, insisting he's positioned to accomplish what his predecessors could not.
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The despot loved the idea of putting Zaire on the map with the spectacle of the biggest fight in the world and the build up to the fight was as impressive as it was bizarre.
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Trump's recent decision to participate in coalition airstrikes against Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad — a response to Assad again using chemical weapons on his own people — are being viewed in a "wag the dog"context.
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While it seems less likely by the day that he will, never knowing what happened is undoubtedly the best possible outcome for the many who would rather be affiliated with a reformer than a murderous despot.
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At times, he's joined by his rarely-seen wife, Ri Sol Ju, and his sister, Kim Yo Jong, with the women often seen peering at glass cases of beauty products or standing -- smiling -- behind the despot.
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Mr. Castro was reviled by many as a despot who had killed innocents and caused countless Cubans to flee the island, and when he died Friday night, spontaneous parties broke out in the streets of Miami.
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Secret tape supplied by Choi revealed Kim's character A 2016 documentary, "The Lovers and the Despot," includes secret audio tape, smuggled out of North Korea in the 1980s by the couple, of Kim discussing their kidnapping.
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Lincoln's got this beautiful quote, in which he's talking about if you truncate the American equality vision, if you truncate it to exclude black people, the next thing some despot will do is start excluding immigrants.
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Watching television aboard Air Force One, on a flight back from his summit in Singapore with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean despot, Mr. Trump decreed that Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina must be defeated.
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VICKI RIBA KOESTLERALEXANDRIA, VA. To the Editor: Let's get this out of the way: Kim Jong-un is a terrible despot who starves and murders the North Korean people in order to further his militaristic goals.
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For starters, Trump appears to have such confidence in his abilities as a negotiator that he thinks he can emerge from talks with the young despot with some kind of accord about North Korea's nuclear program.
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"He speaks, and his people sit up at attention," Trump said on Friday morning of North Korean despot Kim Jong Un in an interview with Fox News — a network where he receives no shortage of praise.
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Trump was unpleasantly surprised by a demand from Kim that all sanctions be lifted on North Korea, according to a person familiar with the negotiations, believing the young despot had come to Hanoi prepared to deal.
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Mr Trump wants the North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un to believe that he is capable of taking any steps necessary to prevent the north's hermit regime from developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting America.
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President Trump's top advisers woke up Tuesday believing that a rebellion in the Venezuelan military that day would galvanize a popular uprising and topple a leader they have described as a reviled despot who must be replaced.
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Clinton and Mr. Comey is not that our legal norms can withstand a despot; rather, it's that within a matter of months we can find ourselves praying that they hold, and with little recourse if they don't.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the third visit between the two neighboring countries and a week after the despot met with President Trump in a historic Singapore summit.
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Ri Yong Guk, a North Korean defector who once served on the late Kim Jong Il's security detail, wrote in a 2013 memoir that the former North Korean despot had up to six different layers of security guards.
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That might be the lesson of The Favourite and The Death of Stalin: As hard as it may be to take eyes off an aspiring or actual despot, it's the people swirling around them who are really telling.
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"(Russia and China) have chosen to veto not because of a lack of consultation, but because of their long-standing, misplaced faith in a despot who has killed nearly half a million of his own people," Rycroft said.
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"Putting our state defense firm at the disposal of a murderous despot would make the whole nation complicit in the human rights atrocities of the regime of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman," said DA lawmaker Stevens Mokgalapa.
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In May 2018, about six months after Zimbabwe finally got rid of the despot Robert Mugabe, the new government announced that it was partnering with a Chinese company called CloudWalk to build an AI and facial-recognition system.
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Having made this deal, the citizens are forced not only to live under the shitty reign (and rain) of this despot, but also to pretend they love it, even as the king ends the world in nuclear war.
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"I don't know a lot of people who love the idea of living under a despot," he said, positing a future in which an artificial intelligences — or the people controlling it — outstrip our capabilities by orders of magnitude.
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Washington (CNN)The historic diplomatic encounter planned for three weeks from now between President Donald Trump and North Korean despot Kim Jong Un appeared in doubt on Tuesday as Trump questioned whether preparations could be completed in time.
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Despot, who is from Serbia, was working on Celebrity's Eclipse ship as a maitre d' in 83 when he says he was hit in the back by a bread trolley, Celebrity's attorneys said in the July 12 filing.
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Despite its flaws and will to kitsch, "The Lovers and the Despot" has enough enigmas and chills to merit a look, even if some of its spookier moments involve cinephilia rather than the usual weapons of mass destruction.
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Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to walk out of a meeting with Kim Jong Un, while promising to maintain "maximum pressure" on the North Korean despot in the weeks leading up to the planned summit between the two leaders.
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It probably wasn't very fruitful because I somehow zeroed in on the phrase "X marks the spot" instead, and saw that if I used EX, MARXS and DESPOT I could, with a little poetic license, mimic that phrase.
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Editorial The despot Yahya Jammeh once said he was prepared to stay in power for a billion years if that's how long it took to execute his vision for Gambia, the tiny West African nation he has ruled.
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Trump's insistence that he has given nothing away cannot disguise the still shocking sight of an American President pouring praise on a man who rules as a despot, keeps his people isolated and hungry and presides over gulags.
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Whatever the results, it will be one of the more unusual summits in recent history as a flamboyant, often erratic U.S. president gets a close-up look at a hereditary socialist despot who sits on a nuclear weapons program.
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"The Lovers and the Despot" tells the story of how actress Choi Eun-hee and director Shin Sang-ok were seized by North Korean agents in 1978, and kept in North Korea for eight years, forced to make movies.
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The involvement of the missing North Korean agents have fueled South Korea's spy agency's claim that the attack was part of a careful plot set up by the North Korean despot to kill a brother he reportedly never met.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's rosy outlook at the prospect of meeting with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un is about to hit a wall of hard truths erected by US allies, outside experts and officials within his administration.
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And if we do decide to launch a missile strike to retaliate against the despot Bashar al-Assad for gassing his own people, it means we don't tell Putin first so he can warn Assad to move his planes.
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Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday, a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot.
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Sources within the administration told Axios the president wants to offer Kim another personal meeting during the U.N. General Assembly as a carrot for the despot to make good on the denuclearization promises he made in Singapore last month.
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Pictures show Pence and wife Karen sitting in the front row, with Kim Yo Jong, the younger sibling and adviser to the North Korean despot, perched just behind, alongside Kim Yong Nam, the ceremonial head of the rogue regime.
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When it comes to the whole body, Hellman repeatedly favors shots of the deformed despot traversing cliff faces on his island, climbing rocks like his namesake while waves crash against the craggy surface that resembles the mottled texture of his face.
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When Trump retweeted a quote widely attributed to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, one Egyptian on Twitter joked that Trump could be Sisi's brother, as Sisi is often portrayed by his critics as having similar traits to the former Italian despot.
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Mugabe, still seen by many Africans as a liberation hero, is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power destroyed one of Africa's most promising states.
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While Sidious, also known as Chancellor Palpatine, is written to be the most despicable character in the Star Wars universe (we can debate the Hutt), if one looks past the "evil despot" stereotypes, he demonstrates some surprisingly admirable traits and capabilities.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday condemned Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro as a despot leading his oil-rich nation to ruin, adding "ultimately this regime is going to have to go" for the situation to improve.
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Predictably, Trump has reacted to Wolff's book in the manner of a wounded despot—by declaring that Bannon, once his closest adviser in matters of isolationism and white nationalism, has "lost his mind," and by declaring war on the written word.
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In contrast to his elevated status on the continent, Mugabe is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power destroyed one of Africa's most promising states.
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Geeta and Babita, until then carefree teenagers who love dressing up and sleeping in, cannot fathom what suddenly caused their otherwise placid father to turn into a despot, but are also not conditioned to question the man of the house.
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"Presidential historian Mark Updegrove, told The Times that he thinks Trump "has to continue to add to the inherent drama of the moment, not only bragging about the despot being brought to justice but happening in the most humiliating way.
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Op-Ed Contributor Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's goal of replacing a corrupt feudal state in Saudi Arabia with a Western-orientated market economy is doomed to be elusive unless he stops acting like a despot and rules like a reformer.
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But if the regime's travails prove anything, it's that China's current despot is no more enlightened than despots elsewhere, and China's people are no less eager to have what people have elsewhere: justice, fairness, rights, freedom from fear, freedom itself.
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"I recall being put off by how many of my colleagues (or should I say Comrades) seemed to be falling over one another to have a chance to shake hands with the wily old despot," he wrote in an email.
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And until his ouster in 2017 and his death, announced on Friday, the tantalizing riddle of the Mugabe regime was the question of what had turned a hero of Africa's liberation — and self-proclaimed champion of universal suffrage — into a despot.
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Having written a poem comparing Stalin's fingers to fat grubs, Osip was arrested by the despot, who (as seems typical of despots) had no sense of humor and appears to have been particularly offended by the line about his fingers.
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The Saudis told W. that Saddam was not sitting on a cache of W.M.D.s, and was simply blustering like any Arab despot would, but W. dreaded being labeled a wimp, as his father had been in his first presidential campaign.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday, a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot.
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Video KIM JONG UN&aposS LIMOUSINE IS A PORTABLE POTTY IN DISGUISE, REPORTS SAY One of the planes that departed North Korea was an IL-76 transport plane that brought a bullet-proof limousine and portable toilet for the despot, Chosun Ilbo reported.
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China has close ties with Zimbabwe and traditionally also with Mugabe himself, who is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power destroyed one of Africa's most promising states.
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There was the source of evil, the bastard despot whose cult had to end before China could remake itself, the man he had blubbed so hard for when he died in 1976, competing with his classmates to see who could wail loudest.
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On the news every night we have someone who appears to be following a script on how to become a despot, by way of Peter Finch's "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the 1976 film Network.
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"Boss and owner of everything" on the island, according to those who loathed the man, this tinpot despot didn't deserve his peaceful death, any more than he deserved the loyalty of his daughter, Madeleine, or the islanders who depended on him for survival.
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"Infinity War," directed by brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, sees despot Thanos (Josh Brolin) fight the Avengers and their allies for all six of the legendary Infinity Stones that give the user specific powers to manipulate other people, objects or forms of energy.
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His defiant display of nuclear advancements in the face of constant international condemnation, and his brazen assassinations of both his uncle and half-brother, have revealed a young despot far more cruel and clever than his father Kim Jong Il ever was.
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The mark of the despot is to rewrite the clock and calendar: in 2002 Turkmenistan renamed the months according to the will of Saparmurat Niyazov, its "President for Life" (January was named for the leader himself, April was named after his mother).
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Decisions on the fly Proclamations over the past month to impose new steel tariffs and open talks with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un demonstrated Trump's penchant for making decisions on the fly, even with supposed guardrails like Hicks and Cohn in place.
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In June 2000, after pocketing $85033 million from the South's president for the privilege of making a pilgrimage to Pyongyang for a summit meeting, Kim Jong Il, the second hereditary ruler and father of the current despot, turned to charming the United States.
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The summit won't be Trump's first foray into treating an established despot and human rights abuser like or perhaps better than the leader of an allied nation, though it is Twitter's first time treating such an event like a Game of Thrones season finale.
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Of course, last week, President Trump initially canceled the summit, sending a strongly worded letter to Kim Jong Un after the despot, the dictator, authorized a series of aggressive statements and failed to comply with the -- some of the basic planning ahead of the talks.
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In the U.S. of 23, when Donald Trump is historically unpopular (and is perhaps best described as the country's first bona fide despot), it's hard for a lot of people to get fired up by The Division 2's efforts to make America great again.
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If this is Trump's idea of a "ridiculous" deal, what does he envision as success on the Korean peninsula, where a despot heads a regime that's cheated on past agreements, does not cooperate with the IAEA and is far ahead of Iran's nuclear program?
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Pence's comments referenced Kim's threat last week to pull out of the summit after National Security Adviser John Bolton suggested North Korea could follow a "Libya model" of denuclearisation — something Kim is eager to avoid as it ended with the death of despot Muammar Gaddafi.
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The President's focus over the past weeks has been his June 12 summit with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un in Singapore and not the G7 meetings held with top US allies in a remote part of Quebec, people familiar with the preparations say.
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After his confrontational meeting with other members of the world's seven largest democracies and remarkable bonding and agreement with the insular despot using the threat of a nuclear arsenal as a bargaining chip, here's a rundown of how Trump has played geopolitical chess so far.
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In the five months since the killing, most of the world has learned that Prince Mohammed is not the modernizing liberal of the image he cultivated among Western leaders and visitors but rather a despot who suppressed those who challenged his image and his power.
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Mr. Abili is currently working off Broadway, not in films, but he is winning praise for his portrayal of an African-American: the violent flimflam man Brutus Jones, the despot of a Caribbean island in Eugene O'Neill's drama "The Emperor Jones," at Irish Repertory Theater.
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The Labour Party head tends to see US imperialism everywhere, has admired Fidel Castro's Cuba, praised late Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez, preferred Hamas over Israel, went on Iranian TV to call the killing of Osama bin Laden a tragedy, criticized NATO and sided with Russia.
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Without offering much detail, Mr Trump has said he would "bomb the shit out of" IS. He has also appeared to accept the notion, pushed by Russia, that Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, is a bulwark against Sunni extremism rather than a despot who provokes it.
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From his unconstitutional policy statements to his ridiculing of Americans to his desire to abridge our freedom of speech and religion, and his cozying up to the despot Vladimir Putin, Trump is as vulgar and unacceptable a candidate as our presidential nominating process has ever turned out.
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Citing two unnamed sources dealing with logistics for the meeting, The Washington Post reported Friday that Pyongyang was reluctant to pay for Kim and his delegation, especially as the despot had demanded a suite at the Fullerton Hotel, which offers five-star luxury for $6,000 a night.
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Sarkozy was detained after he presented himself at a police station in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, according to sources speaking to Le Monde and AP. The arrest follows a five-year probe into claims Sarkozy illegally financed his run with funds from the late despot.
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Alas, the dramatic re-creations in "The Lovers and the Despot" often undermine the movie because Mr. Cannan and Mr. Adam have a bad habit of trying to juice up already sensational material, as in a staged scene of two people running toward freedom, camera shaking.
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Ken Watanabe is holding forth as an unusually playful King of Siam in "The King and I" at the London Palladium, and Rhys Ifans, as the vainglorious despot in a rare local sighting of Eugène Ionesco's "Exit the King," at times suggests a Lear-in-waiting.
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A classic of the absurdist repertoire, "Exit the King" ("Le Roi se meurt") parallels "King Lear" in its defiant rage against the dying of the light ("I will remain standing and I will howl," says the fallen despot, who gets a mini storm scene of his own).
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We might have also revered, had we known more about him, South Korea's technocratic despot Park Chung-hee, who accomplished economic goals with the help of highly trained managers, and who also appeared to reduce inequality and build what we in India sorely lacked: social cohesion.
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But the fall of Mugabe, a charismatic despot who drove his economy to ruin, shows how Beijing is learning to navigate, very carefully, through turbulent transitions in places where it has deep economic ties, sometimes decades old, and how countries bend to the arc of China's gravity.
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Malta, moreover, is not an ill-developed or impoverished dictatorship where a despot can have his way; it is a full member of the European Union enjoying a period of robust economic growth, fed in part by thriving tourism and Malta's attraction as a tax haven.
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The European Union, for example, initially hoped for a €3 billion deal with Turkey, but President Erdoğan, taking a page from Gaddafi's playbook—the Libyan despot once warned that he was the only thing preventing Europe from becoming "black"—leveraged European urgency into twice the amount.
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So I think the mistake is almost inevitable from today in the sense that the mistake was having this forum in the first place where the United States president has to be in the presence of this autocrat, this despot and treat him as if he were a statesman.
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News outlets have run images of North Korean nuclear missile launchers trundling through Pyongyang, and recalled Mr Trump's tweets boasting that he has a bigger nuclear button than the North Korean despot, Kim Jong Un. Democrats face a dilemma, however: whether to risk being seen as anti-military.
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The summit—only the third of its kind and the first in a decade—allowed many in the South to engage in a willing suspension of disbelief and see Mr Kim as an ebullient charmer, rather than a despot who runs the world's most reclusive and repressive regime.
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The president's governing ZANU-PF party this month moved to draw a line under the era of Mugabe, who during his decades in power became feared as a despot and presided over economic collapse, by formally expelling the ex-president's wife Grace and her allies from the organization.
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The deputy leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party said the Turkish president was "reacting like a wilful child that cannot have his way", while a top leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party described Erdogan as the "despot of the Bosphorus" and demanded an apology.
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Hyde-Smith has also gone on the attack, putting Espy on the defensive during the debate over a Fox News report that found he collected $750,85033 through a lobbying contract with a West African despot, , despite telling The Hill in 2011 that he received only half of that amount.
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The princes in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, have been desperate to revive the regional status quo of the days of Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq, when a surrogate repressive despot, eliciting wealth and material support from fellow Arabs and a gullible West, countered the so-called Iranian threat.
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As its leftist president, Nicolás Maduro, is increasingly regarded as a despot among neighbors in a region that has shifted politically to the right, Venezuela, once the richest country in South America but now in need of cash, is drawing closer — and becoming more dependent on — Russia and China.
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The opera is based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, and recounts the legend of the 14th-century Swiss national hero who is forced by a Habsburg overlord to shoot an apple off his son's head, a marvelous feat he accomplishes before assassinating the despot and leading the Swiss to freedom.
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The Lovers and the Despot tells a story that's so strange, it has to be true: In 1978, the South Korean movie star Choi Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the film director Shin Sang-ok, were kidnapped by Kim Jong Il of North Korea and held against their will.
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In the President's words -- "honored" was how he described his feelings -- in his several attempts to touch the North Korean despot, and in his optimistic prediction of success, I detected a Donald Trump at his most subdued as he faced a moment in Singapore that was all about making impressions.
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As the United States and Western Europe vacillated in their approach to Syria — to the frustration of Turkey and other Middle Eastern powers — Russia chose to protect its ally, Mr. al-Assad, and stuck with him despite fierce criticism from the West that the Syrian ruler was a brutal despot.
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The threat of nuclear war, which for decades had virtually vanished from public discourse, roared back into view during the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, when Trump warned North Korea that it would face "fire and fury" if the country's despot, Kim Jong-un, continued to issue threats against America.
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Pence was referring to Kim's threat to call off the summit after National Security Adviser John Bolton suggested last week that North Korea could follow a "Libya model" of denuclearization — something Kim is eager to avoid, as it ended with the death of despot Muammar Gaddafi at the hands of rebels.
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But not that many games place the oceans at the very centre of their narratives – and that includes underwater affairs like Ecco the Dolphin, BioShock and SOMA, where the seawater is mostly a backdrop for more pressing concerns, be they overthrowing a dystopian despot or rescuing your cetacean pals from Giger-inspired aliens.
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It not only reflects the Hollywood mainstreaming of fantasy fiction, but also combines the basic fantasy set-up (normal boy is spirited away to a parallel world of magic and adventure) with the leaden, self-serious spectacle of the modern fantasy epic (army of good guys fights evil racist despot and his minions).
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Say what you will about the North Korean despot, but consolidating power in his vipers' nest regime, fielding a credible nuclear arsenal, improving his economy without easing political controls, playing nuclear brinkmanship with Trump and then, within weeks, getting the prestige of a superpower summit are political achievements of the first order.
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Kim's people have good reason to sit up at attention: The despot has racked up human rights abuses during his leadership, ordering the execution of at least 340 people during his first six years as leader of the country — including several members of his own family, according to a South Korean think tank.
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It's what separates Rick and the people of Alexandria, who derive their collective strength from the different groups they've welcomed into their settlement, from a colony like the Saviors, united by fear or admiration of a despot and the enjoyment of the privileges he provides, no matter how ill-gotten the gains.
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An Iraq War veteran, dedicated non-interventionist, and early endorser of Bernie Sanders's presidential bid, Gabbard has attracted substantial national popularity but also criticism for her choice to meet with Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad in 2017; she has also refused to acknowledge that Assad is responsible for chemical weapons attacks against civilians.
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Guam, an American tropical outpost annexed at the end of the 19th century, has been threatened by name by the Stalinist despot of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. A THAAD anti-missile battery sits somewhere out of sight behind the scrubby trees that line this vast airfield, providing anti-missile defence for the island.
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There is nothing new about a North Korean despot proposing a meeting with an American president, or expressing warm words about denuclearisation in return for security guarantees, by which the Kim regime usually means the withdrawal of American troops from the Korean peninsula and the breaking of treaty alliances with South Korea and Japan.
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The new documentary The Lovers and the Despot, made by filmmakers Robert Cannan and Ross Adam, centers on interviews with Choi and secret tapes the couple recorded of Kim Jong-il, in which Kim implies that they were kidnapped on his orders and asks questions like why North Korean films always show someone crying.
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It&aposs sort of like, the left, if you&aposre not backing up the Brinks truck and trying to bribe some kind of despot or dictator, if you&aposre not making meaningless lines in the sand that you never have any intention of backing up, if you show weakness and if you appease, they like that.
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But then the master dealmaker, the intuitive diplomat, cracked a fat joke — just as he was sitting down to lunch across from the portly frame of North Korean despot Kim Jong Un. Having earlier shared a historic handshake and exchanged warm words, President Trump and Kim Jong Un prepared to enjoy a working lunch with their aides.
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A return to the contention that marked Trump's first year in office would undercut his boasts about avoiding war through three person-to-person meetings with leader Kim Jong Un. It would call into question his descriptions of a close friendship with the young despot, with whom he's exchanged "love letters" and briefly walked alongside into North Korean territory in June.
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The remaining six leaders are intent on bending Trump's ear before the President departs early for his talks in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The stark reality of a US president skipping out on fuming Western allies to have what he's described as a "friendly negotiation" with the North Korean despot has not been lost on diplomats and leaders assembled in the Canadian woods.
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The president is gearing up for two major foreign policy trips, first to Canada to meet his Group of Seven allies and then to Singapore to talk nuclear weapons with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un. While the G7 nations are longtime American friends and Kim is head of a rogue nation, Trump is much more optimistic about meeting America's foe than its friends.
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Here is a president of the United States who repeatedly blames America first; who takes the word of a former K.G.B. agent over his own intelligence agencies; who promises to work constructively with a despot whose regime kills journalists, shoots down civilian airliners and uses nerve agents to assassinate its enemies abroad; and who aims his rhetorical fire on an opposing party instead of an enemy government.
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While this may be how the Kirchners acted, that's now how we act in the U.S. If the board decides to answer Carrion's question over the debt as "No", the debt shouldn't be paid back, then maybe Carrion would make a good ambassador to Argentina or another despot that doesn't want to pay its debts – then he could see what he had just created.
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Hitler and most of the Third Reich were ravenous drug users during WWII, author says Hitler and most of the Third Reich were ravenous drug users during WWII, author says There are many things considered to be common knowledge about Adolf Hitler; he was vegetarian, partial to the toothbrush mustache, a failed fine artist and a Nazi despot responsible for the reprehensible, systematic murder of six million jews.
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Even though today's Governors Ball was canceled and nobody got to see Kanye West, we still decided to jump on live television and run around our office lobby in the name of Great TV. A bunch of our pals came through to jump on camera—including Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Despot, iLoveMakonnen, Desus, and THE KID MERO—and we made one heck of an hour of TV, or something.
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In the unabashedly dishonest historiography of the DPRK, victory over Japan was won virtually single-handedly by Kim Il Sung — the fictitious great emancipator of the Korean people, real-life Soviet-sponsored state founder, and grandfather of current North Korean despot, Kim Jong Un. Thus, the plain fact that the United States virtually single-handedly defeated Japan in World War II is of no historical inconvenience in the totalitarian North.
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"What bothers me is that there will be people in the future who see him as an example and they'll be affected in some way, but they'll be a lot smarter and have many more colors to their personality and be more mercurial and become someone with the same values as he has but able to get much further and do more damage as a despot," he said.
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