3. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-iI wrote six operas
The composition of classical music is probably not something that immediately springs to mind when the name of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-iI. However, music was one of the many talents advertised by his official biography after his death in 2011. “He wrote six operas, “declared the biography, “better than any in the history of music.” Whether this judgment of Kim Jong’s compositions is balanced is a matter of opinion. However, the dictator did have an enthusiasm for opera which he shared with his father and in 1974, he encapsulated his musical ideas in a book, The art of opera.