Is Kim Jong-il like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler? A personality disorder evaluation
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A psychological profile was developed on North Korean leader Kim Jong-il based on a South Korean psychiatrist’s evaluation of 14 personality disorders in DSMIV-TR and of schizophrenic and psychotic symptoms. The psychiatrist, considered an expert on Kim Jong-il’s behavior, completed the informant version of the standardized, DSM-IV-TR aligned, 225-item Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI). The resulting profile was compared with a consensus profile based on five academicians whose expertise was Adolf Hitler, and a consensus profile of 11 informants, all former Iraqi nationals all of whom had an intimate knowledge of Saddam Hussein. The rank-order correlation between Kim Jong-il and Hitler and between Kim Jong-il and Hussein was identical r = 0.76, p < 0.002. For the personality disorders, it appeared that a ‘big six’ emerged: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal. All three dictators also showed evidence of psychotic thought processes. The implications of these findings for negotiation are discussed.
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