Kim Jung-Un

[Minimalist]

When I saw this thread resurrect I was hoping he was dead.

[Dom]

When I saw this thread resurrect I was hoping he was dead.

Politically - maybe.

[Fireball]

When I saw this thread resurrect I was hoping he was dead.

Hope springs eternal. 

[Thumpalumpacus]

When I saw this thread resurrect I was hoping he was dead.

Politically - maybe.

A distinction without a difference in that country, I suspect.

[Cavebear]

Kim Jong Un is immortal. He says so. Therefore, the possibility of his death is non-considerable in N Korea. He is and always has been the Leader and if any N Korean thinks otherwise, they are a sickness on the Perfection Of The Perfect Society and must immediately remove themselves from the Perfection or be helped to do it!

[Minimalist]

So, lessee....


Kim il Sung  was Great Leader.

Kim Jung-il was Dear Leader.

Kim Jung-Un must be Chubby Leader.


Well for 4 years we had Asshole Leader so they are ahead of us.

[Cavebear]

I sometimes wonder what it must be like for Kim Jong-un to eat a meal, fearing poison or something. Does he have someone eat half his meal every day? Does he worry that the taster knows which half is safe? What must it be like to not be able to just grab a ripe peach and eat it? Bill Clinton used to sometimes escape The White House and get a fast food burger (yes I saw him once there; I worked nearby and lunchtime is lunchtime).

When you have a habit of killing relatives, who can he trust? Another relative? If some DNA site told me I was related to him in any way, I would disappear into nowhere for a decade with fake IDs and nothing but cash. How can that power be worth all the daily fear?

[Minimalist]

Uh-oh....  things not looking so good in NK.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56685356

Kim Jong-un warns of North Korea crisis similar to deadly 90s famine

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has told citizens to prepare for hard times ahead, following warnings from rights groups that the country faces dire food shortages and economic instability.
Speaking at a party conference, Mr Kim appeared to compare the situation to the devastating 1990s famine, estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands.
North Korea has shut its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Trade with China, its economic lifeline, has come to a standstill.
This is on top of existing international economic sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

Lil Kim, however, won't miss a meal.

[Dom]

Rumors have swirled around North Korean leader Kim Jong Un since he took power in 2011.
Long absences from public view have prompted speculation about his health and who would succeed him.
Political moves in North Korea suggests preparation for such a change, but experts said who comes next is unknowable.
Few world leaders are as closely watched and as shrouded in mystery as Kim Jong Un. Political and diplomatic intrigue has surrounded the dictator, believed to be in his late 30s, since he took power in 2011.
There have been frequent rumors that he is in poor health. His condition and daily whereabouts are so opaque that when he went unseen for several weeks in 2020 speculation about his death was rampant until he again appeared in public.
While Kim has proven the rumors wrong so far, developments in the past year suggest that behind closed doors, North Korea may be preparing for a day when Kim Jong Un is really gone.



"Kim Jong Un's typical procedure was to let someone look like he's becoming number two for a year or two and then purge him," Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation, told Insider.
Purging sometimes means reeducation and a reduction in rank and status rather than execution.
"He's regularly done that because he doesn't want anybody to appear to be an alternative to him," Bennett said of Kim's purges. "He wants to be totally in control."
But several decisions made over the past year indicate that Kim Jong Un and WPK leaders may be preparing for someone to replace Kim.
The first are two articles from a series of rule changes that were instituted in January at the Eighth Party Congress.



Article 28 states that any one member of the five-man Presidium of the Politburo, the WPK's highest body, may preside over a meeting if given consent by the general secretary, who is Kim Jong Un. This essentially means Kim no longer has to oversee or even attend Presidium meetings.
The most striking change by far, though, is Article 26, which creates the new position of "first secretary." The title itself isn't new. Kim Jong Un used it before he adopted "chairman" in 2016 and then "general secretary" in 2021.
Now, however, "first secretary" refers to the first deputy of the general secretary, creating a position akin to vice president - a revolutionary change, as neither the WPK nor any ruling communist party has ever officially designated a second-in-command.
No one has been named as first secretary, however, and there is nothing that states the first secretary would automatically become the leader if the general secretary dies.
"The arrangement put in place here raises an interesting question," Bennett said. "Would the number two just obviously take over or would the senior Politburo members get together and make a selection?"

[Minimalist]

He's probably still sulking about Fuckface losing the election.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Dictators love mystery. It lengthens their lives.

[abaris]

Long absences from public view have prompted speculation about his health and who would succeed him.
Political moves in North Korea suggests preparation for such a change, but experts said who comes next is unknowable.

He seems to prepare his sister. If this is even possible in a regime that relies that heavily on Korean mythology to keep in power. North Korea isn't your classic communist regime after all. It's more of a hereditary monarchy.

[SYZ]

[Mr Greene]

Long absences from public view have prompted speculation about his health and who would succeed him.
Political moves in North Korea suggests preparation for such a change, but experts said who comes next is unknowable.

He seems to prepare his sister. If this is even possible in a regime that relies that heavily on Korean mythology to keep in power. North Korea isn't your classic communist regime after all. It's more of a hereditary monarchy.

Can you think of Communist regime that wasn't more aristocratic than the one it replaced?

[SYZ]

Ceaușescu meeting with North Korean President Kim Il-sung...



In 1989, The New York Times reported that Ceaușescu and his wife
salted away more than US$1 billion in hidden foreign bank accounts. At
that time, the average monthly wage in Rumania was around US$250.

[Dom]

North Korea on Friday fired two short-range ballistic missiles in its third weapons launch this month, officials in South Korea said, in an apparent reprisal for fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden administration for its continuing test launches.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles came from an inland area in western North Pyongan province.
Japan's Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Ministry also detected the launch, while its coast guard urged vessels to pay attention to falling objects.

The South's National Security Council held an emergency meeting and expressed "strong regret" over the North's launches on Friday, the presidential Blue House said Friday, according to the Reuters news agency.

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command issued a statement identical to the ones it put out after Pyongyang's tests earlier this month, saying, "We are aware of the ballistic missile launch and are consulting closely with our allies and partners. While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies, the missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of the DPRK's illicit weapons program. The U.S. commitment to the defense of the Republic of Korea and Japan remains ironclad."

Hours earlier, North Korea issued a statement berating the Biden administration for imposing fresh sanctions over its missile tests and warned of stronger and more explicit action if Washington maintains its "confrontational stance."

More: North Korea continues its accelerated missiles test pace, launching two more, its third and fourth this month - CBS News

[Thumpalumpacus]

The thought occurs to me that if we keep ignoring them, they'll shoot off their entire stock of missiles into the Sea of Japan trying to get our attention.

North Korea: the diplomatic version of Pomeranian dogs.

[abaris]

The thought occurs to me that if we keep ignoring them, they'll shoot off their entire stock of missiles into the Sea of Japan trying to get our attention.

North Korea: the diplomatic version of Pomeranian dogs.

The missiles are his life insurance. Nothing more, nothing less. Having them and showing them off protects him from getting the Iraq-treatment.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The thought occurs to me that if we keep ignoring them, they'll shoot off their entire stock of missiles into the Sea of Japan trying to get our attention.

North Korea: the diplomatic version of Pomeranian dogs.

The missiles are his life insurance. Nothing more, nothing less. Having them and showing them off protects him from getting the Iraq-treatment.

There's no way China would permit that sort of treatment on their doorstep anyway. Even as an impoverished and militarily-backward nation, they intervened in Korea in 1950 once they realized America was going to have divisions on the Yalu River.

China will not permit the Iraq treatment for DPRK.

[no one]

The procedure was to remove his worthless melon from his kiester hole, while the surgeons were root about, they found several orange little shits that have reached the full gestation period, and are ready to begin their parasitic journey.

[SYZ]

China is more of a concern to Australia than North Korea at the
moment. Both militarily, industrially and balance of trade wise.

China has a military force of over 4 million; we've shut down the
majority of our local secondary industries; and our satisfactory
balance of trade relies heavily on China's Aussie imports.