kim jong-il

You just know the tinfoil hat brigade is going to have a field day with the news about the death of Kim Jung Il. Over on GLP and ATS the kooks are ready dreaming up grand conspiracies, but nothing beyond their normal stupidity so far. If anyone happens to find any of them particularly hilarious...

News organizations are reporting North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died, as reported by state-run TV. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693

Personally, I had no idea there was so much stuff to look at in NK. http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/ The dear leader likes to look at things. updated every other day and sometimes on the weekends too.

I don't know how I missed this site before today, but in honor of the Dear Leader's 69'th birthday, I give you Kim Jong Il Looking at Things... http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

Kim Jong Il's dictatorship could end within days. The mysterious Kim Jong Un could finally be seen at a party conference next week, which has been hyped up as a "new great revolutionary surge". A photo suspecting to be of Un:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/north-korea-its-invisible_n_614759.html This will really make Steve Jobs mad.

Linky Could mean war is imminent, but it could mean nothing. The Dear Leader doesn't have many years left on this earth. Maybe he wants to go out in a blaze of glory. He obviously doesn't give a crap about the people of North Korea. Maybe he wants the regime to survive to pass on to his...

... and looks slightly less radiant than usual. I think we can safely conclude that the undated photos occasionally appearing in the NK media have not been recent.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Kim-Jong-Il-Speculation-Over-Health-Of-North-Korean-Leader/Article/200810315123891 I suppose he's probably dead. I wonder who will take over? He hadn't been grooming any of his sons to take over.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,418205,00.html It sounds far fetched but Saddam had body doubles also. Elvis impersonators have nothing on 'the Il' impersonators.

Eric Clapton has been invited to play a concert in Pyongyang, North Korea next year Rock 'n Roll is banned in North Korea, but now Eric Clapton has been invited to play a concert. Strange. Inexplicable. Is Kim Jong Il going wobbly? What is happening here?

We have found a new member of the "axis of evil" and he is us. British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il · US allies think Washington threat to world peace · Only Bin Laden feared more in United Kingdom Julian Glover Friday November 3, 2006 The Guardian America is now seen...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61550-2004Mar15.html

A couple of years back, I read a Readers' Digest article (one of those little ones tacked on the end of larger articles as space-filler) that said humour was banned under Kim Il Sung. It said that only Mr Kim was allowed to make jokes, anyone else doing so got fined. It then gave an example of...

Here is one for Headscratcher: http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/324388|oddlyenough|05-08-2003%3A%3A09%3A11|reuters.html

HONG KONG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has offered political asylum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to a front page story in Sunday's South China Morning Post. The bizarre tale appears to be the kind of news story that newspapers like to publish on April Fool's Day, except for...

I have a question. Who or What rules in North Korea. Is the present "Dear Leader" really the Leader or is there a council behind him that really has the power?