Time Magazine World Dictators Who Mattered In 2012: Syrian Bashar Assad, Rwandan Paul Kagame, North Korean Kim Jong Un

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Syrian Bashar Assad: The most reviled world leader in 2012, according to Time Magazine

Rwandan Paul Kagame: the gaunt 55-year-old with authoritarian streak, ruled Time Magazine.

North Korean Young Kim may one day prove a great reformer, but for the vast majority of his subjects, fear and repression reign, Time Magazine predicted

Who would have thought that in their youth?