Home » Kim Jong Il dies

Comments

Kim Jong Il dies — 22 Comments

  1. The fact that the succession to Kim Jong Un was not firmed up before Kim Jong Il’s death could lead to some real problems on the Korean peninsula. And starved peasants who think this interregnum might be a good time to flee might create problems with neighboring South Korea or China. This bears watching. I’m sure our military is watching closely. I wonder if the White House is?

  2. I wonder if the White House is?

    Depends on how many bars are available on Hawaii’s golf courses, I guess.

    Kim Jong-un’s biggest threat, presumably, lies in NORK generals who’ve had enough of the clan, and don’t fancy taking orders from a 20-something.

  3. Kim Jong Il dies.

    Too bad this didn’t happen on New Year’s Eve….. what a wonderful excuse to drink excessive amounts of Antech Blanquette de Limoux Grande Reserve.

  4. his official cause of death was announced as “exhaustion brought on by a sudden illness while on a domestic train trip.”

    That could be a serious blow to high speed rail.

  5. “attempting to enter Japan on a fake passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland”

    How you gonna keep ’em
    Down with Kim Jong
    After they’ve seen Paree?

  6. If u study these pol systems fromhistory of what has happened before its not unlikely that kims sickness was caused by failed poisoning by close powers
    No man no problem – stalin

    Often the toxins are not outright poison but something that causes cancer like thorium which was used. In the case of ex kgb it was polonium, and with lukashenko it was dioxin i think.

    Unlike the west where there is a limit to ª term and peaceful xfer of power such games are quite normal dating back to way before tiberius and caligula.

    The catch is that sometimes they live long w their conditions and u dont get ª second chance

    Bodyguards are ª fav to compromise in third world places w some recent spectacular ones

  7. I highly recommend renting the movie “Team America” made by the South Park guys. It features a puppet version of Kim Jong singing a song called “I’m So Lonely” in an Elmer Fudd inspired voice w/Korean accent. Not PC, but guaranteed to make you laugh.

  8. So now North Korea has to deal with a basket-case economy and a bloated government led by an inexperienced half-wit.

    It’s just like America now.

  9. North Korea is, indeed, a Stalinist basket case. Their show-place, basically deserted capitol city of Pyongyang, which has its lights turned on occasionally to impress visitors, a starving, brutalized, massively mal-nourished and uneducated (but extremely propagandized) mostly peasant population, a huge extremely brutal gulag–recent reports have surfaced of female prisoners in the gulag who have given birth eating their children so as not to starve–and a well-fed Marxist ruling class and a huge and well fed Army, nuclear weapons, lots of underground military installations, special forces, thousands of tanks, and thousands of artillery tubes focused on and able to hit South Korea’s capitol Seoul, which is only several miles from the border with North Korea. And, the U.S. has 28,000 mostly Army troops stationed in South Korea, there to act–realistically–as a “trip-wire” or as some have said a “speed bump,” there to justify us coming to the South Koreans aid if our troops were to be attacked in the process of a North Korean attack on South Korea and Seoul.

    According to the few reports that have occasionally surfaced in the MSM, the North Korean government and their diplomats have been caught in both counterfeiting and drug dealing to bring in hard currency, and the North Korean government, whose Marxist/Stalinist ideology and incompetence have basically destroyed the North Korean agricultural sector, is very adept at playing the guilt card, and annually and routinely extorting food aid from western governments, with the line that, unless such food aid is forthcoming, North Koreans will starve.

    This is likely the most secretive, repressive, most brutal, murderous, and bloody regime on the planet, but no one dares/wants to take it down, for fear of what North Korea’s massive, nuclear armed military might due in a meltdown and, moreover, the prospect of having to deal with millions of starving, ill-educated and unskilled North Korean peasants swarming across the borders and into South Korea and Chine if North Korea implodes.

    Truly, a horrific mess.

  10. So now North Korea has to deal with a basket-case economy and a bloated government led by an inexperienced half-wit.

    It’s just like America now.

    Except their half-wit has enough good breeding to stay and attempt to do his job, rather than making his way to Hawaii at the people’s expense.

  11. Watching the youtube videos I’m struck by the similar views you can see by watching the videos of an early Beatles concert.

    Are they mourning or celebrating?

    Thankful not to live in a society that imposes such “duties”… yet.

  12. Looking at Kim Jong Il with his expensive, luxurious tastes, with his generals, bodyguards, and retainers, all sitting atop a population barely existing at a subsistence level who are too weak physically, mentally, and spiritually to resist, I can’t help thinking that North Korea is actually the historical norm of human society.

    Medieval kings were basically the most ruthless and successful warlords in the area. There was no meaningful difference between them and modern drug cartel kingpins.

    When our modern society loses the rule of law–and we are; when we lose our knowledge and respect for the values and traditions of Western Civilization–and we are, our society will crash down to the historical norm, and it will happen with shocking suddenness.

  13. Rickl
    I pointed out that the lie of socialism is utopia defined as a return to dynastic feudalism

  14. That a NORK-initiated Gotterdammerung did not happen with K-J Il’s fading over the past several years is fortunate. I expect the Korean peninsula’s tensions will now be muted for a while.
    But if in South Korea, I would be terrified at any thought of reunification. The NORKS are a nation of children brutalized for sixty years by successive paranoid schizophrenic parents, and no good can come from most of them, ever. They are bent beyond straightening.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

HTML tags allowed in your comment: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>