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This week, don’t miss a history of the North Korean personality cult, a Nobel laureate’s memoir of growing up in Communist Romania, and new essays by David Sedaris By Jim Kelly North Korea is as much a personality cult as it is a nation, and Jonathan Cheng does a masterful job explaining how the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, pulled it off. It helped that he was the son of two fervent Christians and grew up during a period of such high missionary zeal that Pyongyang earned the nickname “Jeru...