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Kim Jong-Il . . . *Ill*?
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Apparently at the very least he's missing . . . maybe even dead.
Even more shocking, some guy in Japan claims he's actually been dead for five years, and portrayed by a crude marionette ever since.
Considering this is a country where the last succession was simply from father to son . . . and they're all crazy . . . this could get interesting (in the Chinese sense).
BBC - N Korea's Kim missing from paradeNorth Korean leader may have suffered stroke: reports
Speculation is swirling that North Korea's leader has suffered a stroke and is gravely ill after he failed to show up at a major national parade in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
There was no sign of Kim Jong-il, 66, at the parade marking the 60th anniversary of North Korea's founding and the country's state media was silent about his absence.
Footage on state television showed images of lower level officials on a viewing stand, watching an event that was less bombastic than in other key anniversary years. Marching militia members and a few military vehicles circulated by a large portrait of Kim, but there were no signs of the tanks and missiles usually put on parade.
"There is reason to believe Kim Jong-il has suffered a serious health setback, possibly a stroke," a Western intelligence official told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Another official said reports of Kim's possible health problems were based in part on intelligence gathered by several countries, while a senior U.S. official told the AP that rumours had been circulating for weeks about the state of Kim's health and his control over North Korea's government.
"What we do know is that he was not at the military parade," the U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity about the administration's internal assessment. "That is quite unusual and reinforces a lot of what we've been hearing."
While officials spoke on condition of anonymity, the U.S. government has said little publicly. White House press secretary Dana Perino would only say Tuesday that the administration is watching the situation closely.
"There's nothing I can provide for you now," she told reporters in Washington.
Even more shocking, some guy in Japan claims he's actually been dead for five years, and portrayed by a crude marionette ever since.
Considering this is a country where the last succession was simply from father to son . . . and they're all crazy . . . this could get interesting (in the Chinese sense).
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Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Nothing will change. 2nd in power succeeds.
Or there will be political strife for power within their ranks.
Either way there is no telling because the government is so secretive to begin with.
This is the best kind of news.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
"daddy" has been long dead.
Probably bad news. There were rumours that the military were mightily upset about him shutting down Yongbyon. The moderates in the foreign ministry were the only ones who supported it.
So, if he dies, then there is the question of who will succeed him:
- One of his sons... either the crazy eldest one who was busted entering Japan with a fake passport (giving his name as "Fat Bear") in order to visit Tokyo Disneyland... or the second one, who is apparently an obsessive Eric Clapton fan.
- Someone from the Government, possibly from the foreign ministry. Not likely.
- Someone from the military. The worst case scenario.
Really, the most probable situation is that his second son will take over, but I'm sure the military will end up with more control of the country in the mean-time.
But officially, he's still the leader of the nation. His son is merely regent.
Next time we see Kim he's going to have some strings attached to half his body so it looks like he's fine.
haha
But even with all those specially trained guards, it's sickness that got 'em.
edit: yes, they actually believe that shit. Or at least cram it down the throats of their citizens.
I heard he committed suicide because his CoD4 clan kept losing to Vlad Putin's. He just couldn't take it anymore.
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I hope some tabloid picks up my idea.
Even better is the constant media attention on the wall that South Korea (and the US) built along the border with the North (in the DMZ). The DPRK media states that the construction of the massive wall shows that the South has no plans to reunite. The South has blatantly ignored all pleas from the North to tear the wall down in the name of reconciliation, and refuses acknowledge that the wall is causing tensions. The issue is a major part of the DPRK propaganda against the South.
I like the propaganda town.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Village
During the 2002 World Cup, the South blasted commentary from the games across the DMZ. I guess this was part of the same loudspeaker war.
Personally I hope the Clapton fan succeeds, that sounds like it could go well.
Spike his drink and put on Wheels of Fire.
I think I heard something about North Korea having the world's biggest flag there or something, its supposedly so big it can't really even move in the wind.
Well, when I was on the tour to the DMZ two months ago, it was flapping well. It takes a hell of a lot of wind to get it moving though. It is on one of the largest flag poles in the world though.
No, he just saw Team America and got really confused.
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The largest flag pole.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Gijeong-ri_Flag.jpg
that thing is gigantic.
It's the Eiffel tower of flagpoles.
There's a documentary where some western journalist got in with a team of opthamologists (IIRC) by posing as an assistant who was filming the procedures to train more doctors coming over to do aid work. During the visit she actually got a few interviews with NK nationals. The stuff that people believe there is absolutely insane.
...like? You can't just leave us hanging like that.
The procedures they were doing seemed to mostly be removal of cadaracs and that sort of thing. They were doing the procedures inside this building that was one giant room. It was set up like a church, pews all in rows with an aisle, facing a stage/altar/raised-type-part where they were doing the actual procedures. Where Jesus/a cross would be in a church up behind the stage on the wall, there was a giant portrait of Kim Jong Il. Every time they finished with a patient, the patient would immediately get up, walk to the front of the stage, bow to the portrait and thank "Our Glorious Leader" for fixing their eyes. Not the doctors. One old man even started to spout off about how he was going to take a gun and kill all the Americans, even though some among the doctors that had just helped him were clearly American.
Later she was with a North Korean family and was filming them during dinner. Instead of a prayer they thanked their "Glorious Leader" for their food. They ate in silence, being very polite, eating very efficiently. Suddenly, the lights cut off. The power has been turned off for the night, like it always is. Instantly, the wife goes from the epitome of an east-Asian stereotypical polite housewive to a screaming, cursing, foaming-at-the-mouth she-devil.
"Fucking Americans! Can't even let us eat our fucking dinner in peace! I'll kill them! I'll kill them!" and so on.
They were not told that the power was cut off because the government couldn't afford it, they were told that the power was cut off because the Americans bombed their power plants every night.
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
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