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It's Thursday, the 4th of September.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, new reports that Kim Jong-un's paranoia was on full display in Beijing this week

during the visit for Xi Jinping's big parade

blowout. Little Rocket Man was accompanied by a gaggle of AIDS following behind him and cleaning

up his DNA. It's a bit like the fellas that walk behind the parade elephants and shovel up their

poop. Admittedly, that's not a perfect analogy.

Later in the show, European leaders in Paris say their coalition of the willing is ready

to send troops into Ukraine as Washington declines to offer boots on the ground but does offer

support from the air.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We're starting today's brief with a

bizarre scene out of Beijing. At China's fancy military parade meant to show off Beijing's latest

weapons, it wasn't the missiles or the tanks that went viral. Instead, it was North Korean leader

Kim Jong-un and his almost comical display of paranoia.

Cameras caught his entourage, rushing to scrub away every trace of his DNA and sterilize

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