Kim Jong Il Dead

[Papewaio]

Breaking news is that he has died of "Mental and Physical over work".

As normal play nicely in these threads to post funeral then start the mud slinging in separate threads to the death notice.

[Beskar]

Wow, that is unexpected.

Would be curious how North Korea develops now.

[Vuk]

I was watching that Kong-li vs. Hulk Hogan video from the other thread I saw this. This is a ridiculously strange and surprising turn of events

[Lemur]

Who's in charge now?

According to at least one source: "For now, the throne has passed, as it did to him, to his chosen, untested successor: his third son, Kim Jong-un, who is in his twenties and woke today with ultimate responsibility for twenty-five million people who deserve better."

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A little more detail from the hermit kingdom:

North Korea on Monday urged its 24 million people to rally behind 20-something heir-apparent Kim Jong Un as the nation mourned the death of supreme leader Kim Jong Il. [...] The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the country, people and military "must faithfully revere respectable comrade Kim Jong Un."

"At the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Un, we have to change sadness to strength and courage and overcome today's difficulties," it said.

[lars573]

I also heard that Jong-Il's son-in-law might make a move to become Chairman of the national defense commission.

Wow, that is unexpected.

Would be curious how North Korea develops now.

Not really the man had looked worse and worse for almost 3 years now.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I also heard that Jong-Il's son-in-law might make a move to become Chairman of the national defense commission.


Not really the man had looked worse and worse for almost 3 years now.

I imagine this is how people felt when Stalin died, though.

This is not really a good time for a belligerant, isolationist, country to have a leadership crisis, what with everything else the World Powers have to worry about.

[Ronin]

Lil' Kim...we hardly knew ya.

[Lemur]

Enjoy the creepiness.

[Lemur]

For your viewing and grieving pleasure, I offer Pictures of Kim Jong Il Looking at Things.

[Rhyfelwyr]

For all the suffering he inflicted on his people, it seems to have been done more out of lunacy than outright badness.

And he must have had a tough time of it in his last few years, personally speaking.

He was still just a human being.

So, RIP.

[Husar]

Except all the zombies from Lemur's video would hate you for liberating them.

That's the really creepy thing.

It's mass lunacy, the masses worshipping a lunatic.

It's sad but Lemur's video made me laugh several times, because most horror movies with zombies and ghosts would struggle to reach that level of creepiness.
All these people are deluded beyond, well, I don't know beyond what but it's really bad.

It doesn't really matter whether their great leader was deluded as well, I hope his son may improve matters but chances are slim and it doesn't seem like an easy task.

[Lemur]

Frontline did a very gutsy show on a doctor who did mass cataract surgeries in NK. The thing that creeped me out was how everyone felt compelled to thank the Dear Leader for their vision, although he had nothing to do with it.

Video here.

How much of that is genuine? How much is rational self-preservation? Do they even know the difference?

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On a lighter note, we give lots of credit to KJI for being a despot, madman and torturer. But do we give him his dues as a filmmaker? I think not. Clips from his monster movie, Pulgasari.



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And as long as I'm piling up links and videos, here's a graphic, gruesome account (with video) of the Dear Leader's initiative: Selling citizens to Siberian labor camps. You say Gulag, I say winter wonderland!

[Fragony]

The fact that they are brainwashed to the point of not realizing there is anything better is just utterly, utterly creepy.

That is what it looks like but I doubt they don't know something is wrong, they just can't do anything about it.

[Beskar]

I doubt it is so peachy, given the flood of refugees which would occur if the border patrols let their guard down for a brief moment.