Kim Jong Il has died

[philw]

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died, AFP reported, citing North Korean TV.
More to come


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-dies-report-says/story-e6frfkyi-1226225834414#ixzz1gwqCr8q8

[fightingquaker13]

OK, That's both good news on a moral level, and scary as hell on a practical one. Lord let someone with some common sense take over.
FQ13

[philw]

OK, That's both good news on a moral level, and scary as hell on a practical one. Lord let someone with some common sense take over.
FQ13

um  I doubt it

NORTH Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has died.
The veteran leader died on Saturday, December 17, a weeping announcer said on Pyongyang's state television on Monday.

He was 69.

Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.

The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
The state television announcer said Kim died of fatigue while on a train, the BBC reported.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-dies-report-says/story-e6frfkyi-1226225834414#ixzz1gwrviuFh

[tombogan03884]

FQ must have been behind the door a year or so back when all News outlets were reporting that Kim had officially and publiclly designated as his successor his son Kim Jong Un

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un

Kim Jong-un (Korean: 김정은,[1] Hanja: 金正恩,[2]) also known as Kim Jong-eun or Kim Jung-eun,[3] formerly Kim Jong-woon or Kim Jung-woon[4] (born 1983 or early 1984),[5] is the third and youngest son of the late Kim Jong-il with his consort Ko Young-hee.[6]

He is a Daejang, the equivalent to an American four-star general [7] in the Korean People's Army and the presumptive head of state of North Korea in the wake of his father's death. Recent actions, symbolic and overt, taken in late 2010 by the "Dear Leader" of North Korea (officially, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Kim Jong-il, strongly indicated that Kim Jong-un is now the heir presumptive to the leadership of the nation. It has been claimed that he studied computer science privately in Korea.[

[fightingquaker13]

What was also reported was that he wasn't particulrly popular with the military. If jr. takes over smoothly its one thing (though he could be like mini-Assad and be no different than Daddy dearest). OTOH, the DPRK army might not fall neatly into line, and then things get messy.
FQ13

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[tombogan03884]

Watch for plane crashes and Heart attacks and other "tragic incidents" among high ranking members of the party and military.
Should be a rash of them within the next 6 months while Jr consolidates power.

Like the kid told BHO, It's no accident and no great loss.

[Fox_Hound]

And just like that the world is another wanker short.

[philw]

[billt]

No one will miss that dog eating gnat. Now the only question that remains is which inbred crackpot will take over next?

[fightingquaker13]

Here is a great article on NK by Christopher Hitchens written after a visit there. He posits that we are fundamentally misunderstanding the regime. Its not really a communist regime any longer,  so much as it is a hyper nationalist military state obsessed with purity and paranoid about contacts with the outside. If he's right it changes the game, we're dealing with Hitler not Stalin (and no they aren't the same). A communist is a universalist, he wants to convert you. A racist nationalist on the other hand just wants you to die. Anyway, its a neat piece from Slate and worth a read.
FQ13

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2010/02/a_nation_of_racist_dwarfs.single.html?onswipe_redirect=no