The Economist is quietly killing it ... let them fall - but no one remembers it that way." "Greetings earthlings" - June 17, 2000 "This cover from 2000 showed Kim Jong-Il, the reclusive North ...

in the midst of one of the first of many North Korean nuclear “crises,” the Economist famously put the pompadour-sporting Kim Jong-il on its cover under the headline, “Greetings, earthlings.” ...

Known for its sometimes irreverent way of illustrating world events, The Economist magazine ... Il was waving on the cover beneath a headline that read "Greetings, earthlings." ...