North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il’s official bio is quite the document, laying out the Dear Leader’s supposed accomplishments in the fields of international relations, publishing, and pretty much everything else under the sun. And then there’s this sentence: “It is also said that he wrote six operas, all of which are better then any in the history of music.” Well, of course they are. Regardless of whether he has actually written any operas, Kim has authored a book on opera (along with 1500 others, according to the bio,) which contains such keen artistic insights as “In the first place, an opera singer must sing well.”