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25th May 2013
 

Remembering Sihanouk: Kim Il Sung’s Cambodian Cold War Collaborator

The Khmer Rouge’s PR guru was a king and dictator, and life-long friend of North Korea.
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by Tom Farrell , October 22, 2012

When Indonesia’s dictator Dr Sukarno wanted to set up his own Olympic Games in 1962, he had two friends help him out – Kim Il-Sung, and Cambodia’s Nihodom Sihanouk.

Sihanouk, the so called ‘King-Father’ of Cambodia who died last week, didn’t have any gold medals to his name, although the totalitarian leader excelled elsewhere: he

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Tom Farrell is a freelance journalist who has published in several national Irish newspapers. Click here for full bio page