Episode 22 Who was Kim Jong-il and how did he shape North Korea?
b'Kim Jong-il, the second ruler of the DPRK, transformed North Korea in many ways \\u2013 willingly or not. During the years of his rule, North Korea became a semi-capitalist isolated society in possession of nuclear weapons, a country that would not leave the front pages of international mass-media outlets. An incompetent leader but a talented diplomat, Kim Jong-il managed to pull his authoritarian regime through the period of economic crisis \\u2013 all that despite the ominous predictions of imminent collapse coming from American and European political scientists. In today\\u2019s episode we look at the political biography of Kim Jong-il and at the legacy he left behind.'