Kim Jong-Il is dead.

[El Pistolero]

I think I read somewhere that the son has studied in Europe, so maybe he will change things up a little

Kim Jong-Il is said to have studied English at the University of Malta.

And I think his son studied in America, not Europe. Not sure though.

Anyway:

Rest in peace

or

Burn in hell

?

 

[The Hitch]

North Korea is the saddest situation in the world.

It's people are subject to nothing less than total slavery. Not even serfdom. but slavery of the sort seen in the times of the Ancient Egyptians.

There are no human rights abuses as there are no human rights.

The average North Korean is 5 inches shorter than South Korean, and they were the same 60 years ago, to show just how the pain is inflicted on an entire population.

As this map shows, 99% of the population is still living in the middle ages.

Its regime has such a tight control, I don't see anything changing. In the future people will look back on our generations as still part of the backward era, simply because we shared a time with the Peoples Republic of North Korea.

 

[El Pistolero]

North Korea is the saddest situation in the world.

It's people are subject to nothing less than total slavery. Not even serfdom. but slavery of the sort seen in the times of the Ancient Egyptians.

There are no human rights abuses as there are no human rights.

The average North Korean is 5 inches shorter than South Korean, and they were the same 60 years ago.

As this map shows, 99% of the population is still living in the middle ages.

Its regime has such a tight control, I don't see anything changing. In the future people will look back on our generations as still part of the backward era, simply because we shared a time with the Peoples Republic of North Korea.

I'll take an educated guess where the capital of North Korea lies

 

[The Hitch]

I'll take an educated guess where the capital of North Korea lies

In Beijing?

Seriously though, that little dot is just the presidential palace and the illuminated posters of the "dear leader". Maybe a train if they run at night.

I mean look, the Pyongyang dot, compared to the Seoul ball is like the earth compared to the Sun.

 

[Thomsena]

 

[gregod]

Well, I remember a story when he first came to public attention that he got caught once when he tried to sneak out of the country with a fake passport to go to Disneyland.

that was his older brother. he had brought his family to tokyo disney several times using a fake passport. the last time he was caught. it was on this occasion that his future chance of running north korea was doomed. he also hinted after this that he wasn't really interested in the job anyway.

 

[gregod]

Kim Jong-Il is said to have studied English at the University of Malta.

And I think his son studied in America, not Europe. Not sure though.

...

kim jong un went to high school in switzerland under an assumed name.

 

[Thomsena]

He also has the record on a golf course with his 38 under par on his first day as a golfer. Impressive! Invented the burger and made the whole country quit smoking. Born on the mountain Paektu where rainbows and stars shined in the exact moment of his birth.

 

[fatandfast]

This is really sad news for those of us that took haircut and fashion cues from the Kim Jonger.RIP you super cool dude. You were a pioneer

 

[Christian]

Kim Jong Un is said to have visited the International School of Berne (Switzerland) until the age of 15, under a false name. Swiss magazine "L'Hebdo" reported in 2010 that he left the school at the age of 15 without a degree. He is said to have liked skiing and basketball. He was also supposedly known as a big fan of Michael Jordan and Jean-Claude van Damme.

The former cook of Kim Jong Il, Kenji Fujimori, wrote in his book that Kim Jong Un, the youngest of Il's three sons, resembled his father the most, both physically and character-wise. South Korean newspaper "The Korea Herald" reported that he developped a sense for authority and power at an early age.

Kim Jong Un looks even more like his grandfather, Kim Il Sung. In South Korea speculations arose that he underwent plastic surgery to accentuate the resemblance.

Jong Un was born around the year 1983. His mother was the third wife of Kim Jong Il, the dancer Ko Yong Hi. According to media reports she died over six years ago from cancer.

http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/europa_...12/170896/der-neue-starke-mann-nordkoreas.php

He is said to speak German, English and French

http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/europa_...95/nordkoreas-kommunistische-kim-dynastie.php

 

[Maxiton]

I think I read somewhere that the son has studied in Europe, so maybe he will change things up a little

Didn't help Hitler . . . . Besides which, tyrants all over the world send their favored offspring to Europe for education. The result? A better educated tyrant-to-be, one perhaps more fond of good chocolate.

Here are some more links for your delectation:

Mandatory public crying. Those three words sum up about as tidily as possible the ghastly bondage—the incessant psychic and physical torture—that the Kim dynasty has made the North Korean way of life for more than half a century.
http://youtu.be/pSWN6Qj98Iw

And here is the endearing story of how Dear Leader wanted so badly to make movies, he kidnapped a filmmaker. Where there's a will, there's a way!

http://badassdigest.com/2011/12/19/pulgasari-kim-jong-ils-kaiju-film/

 

[The Hitch]

Would be interesting to see if, like the title of "President" the title of "Dear Leader" is left forever with a dead person, and the new leader gets a new title.

 

[Maxiton]

kim jong un went to high school in switzerland under an assumed name.

Yeah, he was known as "Dear Hans."

 

[boomcie]

I had no idea young Lil' Kim was dead. It's terrible to die at such young age (35?).

RIP Kimberly.

 

[Maxiton]

I had no idea young Lil' Kim was dead. It's terrible to die at such young age (35?).

RIP Kimberly.

That's a lot of leader.

 

[Bala Verde]

 

[BroDeal]

I think I read somewhere that the son has studied in Europe, so maybe he will change things up a little

He was a short, fat, foreign kid with a sense of entitlement that came from knowing he will have the power of life and death over everyone in an entire country. He probably suffered more atomic wedgies than were thought to be humanly possible. After being traumatized in a society that is radically different than his own, he then went back to North Korea to spend the rest of his teens with access to as many girls as he was physically capable of having, his father rewarded him with gifts, like being made a four star general, for doing nothing, and everyone around him treated him like a demigod. This dude will have more psychological hang ups than we can imagine. I bet he is crazier than a sh!thouse rat.

 

[Christian]

Didn't help Hitler . . . . Besides which, tyrants all over the world send their favored offspring to Europe for education. The result? A better educated tyrant-to-be, one perhaps more fond of good chocolate.

You can't help but wonder how Hitler's life would have turned out if only he had gotten into art school

 

[BroDeal]

You can't help but wonder how Hitler's life would have turned out if only he had gotten into art school

Someone else would have written Mein Kampf and done a better job of running the war. What happens if the stand in would not have attacked Russia?

 

[Maxiton]

Someone else would have written Mein Kampf and done a better job of running the war. What happens if the stand in would not have attacked Russia?

Yeah, it seems to have worked out for the best.

 

[BroDeal]

Yeah, it seems to have worked out for the best.

Don't assume that a replacement would have done any different. People like Hitler are the face of social movements. They rise from the Zeitgeist. There was always going to be a WWII. If it wasn't Hitler leading the charge then it would have been someone else, perhaps someone who did not have the same weaknesses.

 

[DenisMenchov]

North Korea is the saddest situation in the world.

It's people are subject to nothing less than total slavery. Not even serfdom. but slavery of the sort seen in the times of the Ancient Egyptians.

There are no human rights abuses as there are no human rights.

The average North Korean is 5 inches shorter than South Korean, and they were the same 60 years ago, to show just how the pain is inflicted on an entire population.

As this map shows, 99% of the population is still living in the middle ages.

Its regime has such a tight control, I don't see anything changing. In the future people will look back on our generations as still part of the backward era, simply because we shared a time with the Peoples Republic of North Korea.

Oh, come on. This picture has more photoshop than the one where Angela Merkel would look sexy. Also those stats are really without any ground, I mean you can't tell how many N. Koreans are there, not how tall they are.

And I must say that I completly understand North Koreans, they are not slaves, in fact they know who and what they are, unlike their southern brothers which are Americas puppets(I'm not saying that it is bad, they seem to be doing exceptionally well ).

 

[Maxiton]

Don't assume that a replacement would have done any different. People like Hitler are the face of social movements. They rise from the Zeitgeist. There was always going to be a WWII. If it wasn't Hitler leading the charge then it would have been someone else, perhaps someone who did not have the same weaknesses.

I was agreeing with you, dummy.

If anything, someone other than Hitler might have been more competent. Without any number of strategic errors on his part, Germany might have won the war, or at least not lost quite so decisively. They might have gotten the Bomb first. Etc. We were spared all sort of terrible scenarios on account of subjective factors - i.e., Hitler's flaws and foibles. World War II was bad. Could have turned out a whole lot worse.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

I wouldn't be surprised if the military generals in North Korea assert their authority, effectively attempting to run the country the way Burma has been run for the last few decades.

 

[Amsterhammer]

I wouldn't be surprised if the military generals in North Korea assert their authority, effectively attempting to run the country the way Burma has been run for the last few decades.

I tend to think that on the surface, for outside consumption, favored fat son #3 will smoothly transition into (apparent) power while the military elite seeks to test the boundaries of what they can get away with. Today a rocket firing, tomorrow an island skirmish, etc.

The NK psyche has been socialized/brainwashed into having/requiring a 'great leader' father figure whom they can suitably adore and worship. If they are told that fat son #3 is the chosen 'he', then they will worship him like the obedient sheep that they are. I'd be very surprised if we saw any kind of overt changes. Of course, it's anybody's guess what might be going on behind the curtains.