North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the mercurial strongman who styled himself as a "Dear Leader" while ruling over an impoverished police state, died at 69, according to North Korean state media.
Kim was believed to have suffered from multiple chronic illnesses, but his death — reportedly from a heart attack while traveling by train on Saturday morning — was sudden. He had been grooming a son to succeed him, and his death creates uncertainty about the future direction of a nation with few international friends but a nuclear weapons capability. Bad year for nasty dictators.
Oh no! What will his Joy Brigade do now?
ReplyDeleteSure hope it's nice and hot where he is right now.
ReplyDeleteAlso, who wrote this post? It's very coherent, which is why I'm asking.
His son is a freak. It will be very interesting to see what happens to the country. Let's hope this doesn't lead to internal or external violence.
ReplyDelete@trollslayer: i agree with you on every thing
ReplyDeleteAnd the 3rd son is "The Good" son....this is going to be a mess..
ReplyDeleteAll well and good, bUt could we please get a Vaclav Havel thread? That's a man who deserves to be remembered.
ReplyDeleteThis past year I saw a documentary on North Korea. I had no idea what it was like over there. The leaders are disgusting and evil.
ReplyDelete^ Amen on Vaclav Havel.
ReplyDeleteRone-ry no more.
ReplyDeleteShades of the Hapsburgs. I predict a coup among the military.
His son, the one taking over, is a conservative sadistic freak, of the highest order. He doesn't me quite open to the rest of the world. Let's see what happens in the next few months.
ReplyDeleteIt's coherent because Enty didn't write it. He copied and pasted the first two paragraphs of the LA Times' article, only adding in the last sentence as his own.
ReplyDeletePlagiarized the LA Times words below.
"North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the mercurial strongman who styled himself as a "Dear Leader" while ruling over an impoverished police state, died at 69, according to North Korean state media.
Kim was believed to have suffered from multiple chronic illnesses, but his death — reportedly from a heart attack while traveling by train on Saturday morning — was sudden. He had been grooming a son to succeed him, and his death creates uncertainty about the future direction of a nation with few international friends but a nuclear weapons capability."
Well, then. Interesting. You'd think a ''lawyer'' would know how to cite his sources.
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ReplyDeleteLet's hope this gives the people courage to rise up and free themselves. Go the democracy world movement.
ReplyDeleteMay he rot in hell.
ReplyDeleteHeard that North Korea's in lockdown mode right now, and all is silent as the country 'mourns'. Ha!
ReplyDeleteDamn these fucking dictators. They're like cockroaches, one dies and the heir is there to began anew.
What Mooshki said...
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