  Ok, it's not at all scientific. I was just taking a look through my millions of jpegs and such and found these two to be, well, eerily similar.
urlLink DPRK's Kim Jong-il and U2's Bono Is it me? Or does urlLink North Korea 's (Democratic People's Republic of Korea/DPRK) "Dear Leader" look at least a bit like urlLink U2 's Bono? Of course they have some pretty different ideas about human rights and the environment but I get the feeling that being in the public eye for so long, the throngs of adoring fans (well, in Kim's case adoring may be a stretch) and accompanying entourage/roadies may have made them both a little distant from work-a-day realities.
At least Bono doesn't require visitors to put urlLink flowers at the foot of massive statues of his father , though. urlLink Here's an interesting story that's sure to attract an obliquely-worded press release from the North. 
