Kim Jong-Il Is Dead

"Kim Jong-Il is a keen roller blader"

I guess his was a dictatorship of FUN!

He also routinely hit holes-in-one when he golfed.

...mmmhmmm, sure.

Don't forget his worldwide fashion trendsetting.

He had a rocking Villain Song, too.

Now imagine him rollerskaing around a golf course hitting holes in one, drunk off his ass on expensive Cognac, to that song.

edited 21st Dec '11 11:46:20 AM by TheBatPencil

http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3

I urge anyone who is interested in the madness of North Korea to watch this minidocumentary. Vice TV is pretty badass (they even snuck into the front lines of the Libyan Civil War, among other things), and funny to boot.

Anyway, there was an exclusive last night that a sort of triumvirate is in power now. Kim Jong Un, his uncle, and the military. Of course, said uncle is 65 years old, so Jong Un is gonna have to start consolidating soon. I presume that article about him sending the military back to the bases is part of that.

Here's a cool story about an American who went to North Korea.

Anyone else feel like that bit at the end where he was playing games with the tea lady was really, really sad for some reason?

The tea lady scene was incredibly depressing. I hope things end up better over there soon.

& Especially the way she seemed to sort of know how to play pool, but did things like bumping into the balls and other unforcederrors.

Is it wrong if I got ideas for fictional villains from that?

edited 21st Dec '11 5:46:56 PM by ssfsx17

She seemed so sweet, too

Vice TV also has another episode on North Korea, this time relating to their slave labor camps in the middle of Siberia.

And yeah, that tea lady was depressing.

edited 21st Dec '11 6:47:03 PM by FFShinra

CMOA: Singing the Sex Pistols. In North Korea.

My newspaper says there are hints someone helped the shit to leave mortal world. South Korean intelligence says satellite surveillance denies that he died aboard train, as was the official info. Chinese arms dealers also mention something was going on for a couple of days, Northerners suddenly turning down offers previously accepted, and so on.

Well now, that's very interesting...

Well, the only thing South Korea did say for certain is that the train he usually used did not leave Pyongyang - even though the official NK line is Kim died aboard the train while traveling the country. That could be deduced from satellite images. So it is clear the NK government lied.

Which could mean there was something rotten about his death, but it doesn't necessarily has to be so.

He was travelling the country ... he just wasn't alive while he was!

Of course, it could be that he's been dead for a while and the announcement was held off until things calmed down on the inside.

I'm reminded of the death of Zhuge Liang.

No thats not what happened.

Before Kim died he set up a committee that would oversee North Korea. His son thus would share power with his aunt (Kim´s sister) the hausband of his aunt (Kim´s father in law) and the oldest and most senior general in the military (some random guy).

Also... Is quite evident that Kim suffered a stroke... considering his lifestyle is sort of amazing he was still alive (but in the end... Castro hasnt gotten any lung cancer neither). Dying of a heart attack is so common... yes they could have killed him or whatever... but I think its much easier and more probable that the guy´s heart just stopped.

As for him being on a train... well he was famous for traveling the country "personally" helping run things. It was part of the mythos that was built around him. In fact when the news brodcaster announced he had died she said that his heart had stopped because he was overworking. Whenever Kim was on a train... N Kans supposed he was working.

I personally think that he did die in a train and that SK intelligence is either fishy or intentional dessinformation.

edited 23rd Dec '11 4:53:31 AM by Baff

"Over work" was just to support his image. That did not kill him, he was sitting in a cool train car with whatever he wants to eat. Thats not "over work".

Not my words. Those where the words of the propaganda. I clearly stated that it was a miracle (why god why??) that he was still alive after the stroke.

I just wanted to point that out to avoid confusion,

I know, im just saying thats it was really bad propaganda. so stupid.

It's not as though the North Korean government has a critical press tearing apart its propaganda. It can usually afford to be a little (very) lazy when generating its propaganda. Who's going to call bullshit? Aside from those wolf-headed American capitalist bastards, but nobody important (read: inside North Korea) will hear and/or listen to them.

The lack of comepatition has made them lousy!

Actually Noam Chomsky wrote a book about this. Its called "Manufacturing Consent".