{"text":"Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["bolivarianism","death","exhumation","hugo-chavez","kim-il-sung","kim-jong-il","media","media-of-north-korea","north-korea","reincarnation","simon-bolivar"],"id":72587,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}