As has been noticed elsewhere, while your host was chewing up asphalt hither and yon, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il has gone to his reward – I doubt he’ll be so “ronery” in hell – leaving his twenty-something third son, Kim Jong Eun as a successor:
Until late last year, the younger Kim had lived his life almost entirely behind a wall of privacy. But as his father struggled with his health, he accelerated a controversial power transfer and, in late September 2010, named Kim Jong Eun to several top military and political posts. This year, when the elder Kim made his customary visits to military camps and factories across the country, his son often accompanied him – not as an equal, but as a trainee.
One concern, described by numerous Korean security experts, is that the younger Kim could face opposition from more senior North Korean officials, including Jang Song Thaek, who had been acting as a caretaker for the transition. In recent years, Kim Jong Il tried to minimize the power of other older party members, often demoting them – sometimes even banishing them to the countryside – so they wouldn’t form allies of their own.
In Japan, the government called a crisis security meeting. South Korea has placed its front line troops on enhanced alert. And the rest of the world strains to see behind the curtains of the hermit kingdom.
Update: Citizens of Pyongyang bitterly weeping at their loss. It’s so weird that it’s scary.
Say hello to Lucifer for us……Rot in Hell you b@stard…..now we’ll see what the next chapter holds for the NORKS who are slowly starving to death…Funny how the new ” Dear Leader” doesn’t seem to be suffering from starvation.
First half million to stop get shot: http://www.usatoday.com/video/news/raw-video-north-koreans-mourn-for-kim-jongil/1334922629001
Just guessing, but I think they are probably crying from the hunger pains. Poor Bastages.
Goodnight sweet Prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
I imagine he’ll be in the Hitler/Mengele/Stalin/Saddam/Pol Pot/Mao wing of Hell. Will be that well-done or extra crispy?
Included in Kim Jong Eun’s first orders of dictatorship must be public executions — not too many, not too few, just the right number (4 should do it) to assure any expectations of improved human rights are quashed before external criticism resumes.
Guessing the “proof of status quo” executions will be carried out within 60 days.
The missile launching was symbolism to prove Kim Jong Eun effectively manages the military after his father’s death Saturday.
Following the playbook Kim Jong Il left for him, Jong Eun must soon convince the world that he is a nuclear loose cannon at least as dangerous of his dad. This will have to be done within 12 months for two reasons.
Hillary Clinton will maintain her critical lip service, and Iran (et al) will be further encouraged in its ambitions. If Obama is truly not an ‘appeaser’, now would be an excellent time for some ‘accident’ at a key facility in DPRK’s nuclear launch infrastructure. Just saying.
Don’t be the first to stop weeping, Comrade.
Think there will be a chime or something to let them know they can stop?
Kim Feyd-Rautha…
I’ll always have a soft spot for that family of crazy dictators. Many a PARPRO track was run in their honor, and my the alpha strike planning for my MC qual board was a strike against their naval facilities.
Guess he won’t be ‘ronery anymore, what with all the other mass murderers in Hades.
“It’s so weird that it’s scary.”
That’s been all-too-true about N. Korea for years…
…nay nay young grasshopper…it’s so weird it’s flippen hilarious. Best
Whatever else the bloodthirsty and brutal bastard was, he apparently was also funky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk
Not enough to save him from eternal damnation and torture of his soul.
“Let’s do it, let’s burn, let’s burn for all eternity…”
Made me think of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSYlCEz5VI
I didn’t see any of the pretty young women in Kim Jong Il’s “Joy Brigade” weeping. One of them may have put paid to his pudgy little body doing the horizontal mambo with him on his armored train. After all he supposedly died of “overwork”.
And I agree that it’s a little spooky that soldiers and police are wandering around in the middle of this mass weeping. Making the point that one should “keep it up” or “I’ll give you something to really cry about.”
Oh great, no doubt the younger will be appearing on Oprah anytime soon?
It could be that Oprah is a bit too left-wing for him.
Don’t forget that during WW II Japanese soldiers and civilians killed themselves rather than be captured by Americans because of what they had been told that the Americans would do to them. Perhaps something of the same sort is in operation here.
Scary when one thinks, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know, when thinking of mass murdering dictators. I wonder if he chose this 3rd son because he’s the only one who exhibited the signs of insanity that is required to follow in his footsteps effectively… in his eyes.
I think it takes years of life experience to manage a country effectively. (A lack of in DC is on exhibit as we speak as to how it works to the contrary) However, I think it doesn’t take a lot of experience to starve a country to death. Just insanity.
I, for one, worry about how many sawed-off, pint-sized dictators that are as bug-house crazy as Dear Leader was, that we have left to make fun of? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ&feature=player_embedded
The elite 101st Lacrimating Brigade.
Sigh! This is yet more evidence that lots and lots of people are innately way too susceptible to falling into the Stockholm Syndrome. Natural-born free spirits seem to be rarer than we Westerners like to believe. Hell, I think I’m slightly autistic, and even I find myself sucking up to authority sometimes, even though I know it’s unprincipled and against my interests.
I think this is why I was careful to attend the ordination of my parish priest. I watched him be examined, and answer the questions correctly. I watched and heard him take the Oath. I watched him being anointed, and having hands laid upon him by the bishop. I am satisfied that he is a legitimate authority worthy of being obeyed, not just some guy with a spiffy haircut and demagogue skills.
So, given this recent tormoil and purported shifts sideways in Asia… What lesson does Iran learn here? The conclusion I see is not positive for ourselves. Draw them as you will, but we still haven’t taken the matches from irresponsible children.
The South Koreans need to have a tremendous fireworks display accompanied by “Happy Day are here again” blared across the border, followed by thousands of balloons with iRadios, pictures of a Denny’s Grand Slam, and a free copy of “The Audacity of Hope”. the Asian “Spring” is sprong.
Of course they weep and cry hysterically; they have to, or they will be f_cking shot!
Know a few Koreans, they are to a man an woman, stoic when it comes to death.this weird display is bizarre,but then again North Korea is Mordor run by Gollum.
I fear it will get a lot worse…
“How you rike me now Hans Brix?” Guess he will find out in person, huh?
On the other hand… we had fair droves of people here in Granola Central acting much this way when Michael Jackson died of doctor-assisted stupidity.
I’m completely unable to decide which is creepier.
In my opinion they are wierder in Kalifornia as the problem is self inflicted there. With the NORKS it’s do it or die.
Wasn’t it Herod the Great who ordered mass executions upon his death so that the populace would actually shed tears?
I dunno, but IIRC the Pharaohs used to have their slaves and retainers slaughtered at their deaths so as to have a respectable retinue in the afterlife.
You are worthress Arec Barrwin!