Caviar caravans on wheels
THE WEEK India|October 08, 2023
There's something about Kim-the Jong-un, not the Kardashian. For one, his smiling visage. I do not recall a single picture of him where he is seen as tense, distracted, or scowling. Not even when he met the Donald. There was, I am reliably told, a photographer who once caught him at a bad moment, but then that moment proved to be worse for the photographer.
NAVTEJ SARNA
Caviar caravans on wheels

And secondly, he claps very often. Mostly at his own remarks, or at parades in his honour, or when he has just shot off the latest intercontinental ballistic missile towards Hollywood. That clapping is infectious. Everybody around him starts clapping and they keep clapping well after he has finished. There was a man who just had to stop and itch the back of his neck; the itch was subsequently cured, permanently.

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