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  • http://www.planettron.com NickDeringer

    They don’t call it Hell for nothing. Pray for the NKorean people that the next dictator will be less vile and despicable.

  • http://chuckdevore.com chuckdevore

    One wonders if his son will hold on to power or if the generals will overthrow him. Recall that the son was supposedly the man responsible for ordering the deadly torpedo attack on the South Korean warship about a year ago.

  • acat

    Here’s the story ..

    Rigors of rail travel? What, did they make him push the train?

    Mew

  • TopGun

    when you see him in a picture, doesn’t look like he has a high enough IQ to know how to reproduce.

    The military needs to build an adult size sandbox in a fenced off area, tell him to go play, and then hopefully they can accomplish some good for their people by talking to the world about how to move forward in a positive way.

  • acat

    I think he’d be a contender…

    Mew

  • carolina

    I just read at a link on Drudge. That wouldn’t surprise me a bit. The establishment has it all figured out (and has for years).

  • carolina

    I just read at a link on Drudge. That wouldn’t surprise me a bit. The establishment has it all figured out (and has for years).

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Some by coming into the world, and some by leaving.

  • TopGun

    should be Romney’s V/P. He’s just as Conservative as Mitt.

  • acat

    as Romney/Rubio …

    Mew

  • TopGun

    n/t

  • TopGun

    That’s it. Romney and Kim could be sandbox friends, so we Conservatives can solve the crisis.

    After all, Romney has been playing in the political sandbox for decades now without being able to get his bucket filled with sand.

  • tankertodd

    After all they gave the man a Peace Prize before he started a war to take out Qaddafi. It’s starting to look like it’s not safe to be a dictator when a liberal Democrat is president of the US…man’s got something to prove…

  • buddyp

    Team America killed that guy years ago.

  • buddyp

    I didn’t listen to all of it. There’s profanity.

  • redmymind

    Things being s-o-o-o-o weird and screwed-up behind that iron curtain, I can’t even begin to imagine what would happen next. But, I can already guess at one of the foreign policy questions for the next debate. Ron Paul as Secretary of State??? Hee, hee, hee!!! Couldn’t resist, folks. Imagine him with Kim Jong U.N.!

  • buddyp

    CNN International just reported that Japan has expressed condolences over the death of Kim Jong Il.

    I wonder what Japan wrote inside that condolence card. Hmm, I’d imagine…

    We, the Japanese people, express our heartfelt condolences to you, the Korean people, upon the loss of the man who kept you ignorant and starving.

    We will greatly miss the great man who kidnapped our people http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2487915.stm and who fired missiles over our land and people, and who constantly threatened us — and just knowing that he had nukes really made that threat so special to us. No one appreciates a nuclear threat as much as we do.

    So for your loss and ours, we are very sorry.

  • buddyp
  • http://www.timothy-bladel.com/ center77

    I think she would make a great VP for anybody, but I would love to see her as Perrys VP.

  • redmymind

    “This” South Korean (and, of course, “honorary Texan”) couldn’t find a bottle of champagne quick enough!!!

    Just a dream, I know, . . . but wouldn’t it be great if the two Koreas were reunited as a single, powerful U.S. ally to keep the Chinese in check? . . . Oh well.

  • http://edgeinducedcohesion.wordpress.com nathanalbright

    That sounds like an excellent condolance…We are sorry that he lived so long and caused so much harm to your nation.

  • http://edgeinducedcohesion.wordpress.com nathanalbright

    Successions are always delicate situations for autocracies run by upper class twits.

  • buddyp

    Would be great in a number of ways, of course. First that comes to my mind is the liberation — and physical nourishment — of about 25 million people. Another is removal of a nuclear threat, both directly and indirectly via proliferation. Another is the conventional threat to South Korea. And yes, whatever helps check China is good.

    On a more personal note, from 2000 – 2003 my girlfriend (here in NYC) was from South Korea. (Very sweet girl, now back in Korea, and we’re friends.) Back in 2000 or 2001 that bast-rd Kim Jong Il allowed some relatives separated since the war to reunite briefly at an event in North Korea. My girlfriend’s mother was on the list to go to see her brother. But she fell ill and couldn’t make the trip. Her illness was temporary, but she never got another chance. I know that a-hole was cruel in even greater ways, but what a petty form of cruelty to keep families apart.

  • redmymind

    Had a maternal uncle who, at the height of the Korean War, had to make a do-or-die decision to either stay with his mother and younger siblings or to go back up north to get his wife. Long story short, he never made it out.

    When one of my uncles miraculously tracked him down (thought to have been dead for decades at the time) and went to actually see him back in the mid-90s, when these family reunion visitations were coming into form, he couldn’t recognize his older brother–the broken down, emaciated shadow of the man he once was. He couldn’t say much by way of substance due to the constant presence of these NK “guides” (goons) but it was plenty evident that he had kept his Catholic faith all along. News later came that this uncle had passed away a mere couple of years later.

    Now, I was never too crazy about the “Arab Spring” movement–in large part due to my well-founded fear of the influence the extremists would exercise behind the scenes–but a “Korean Spring”?

    Why the heck not?

    These simple farming folks up north aren’t interested in pushing a fanatical worldview–political, religious, or otherwise.

    They just want to live, have their freedom, and not be treated like animals to the slaughter. They’d embrace the U.S. in a heartbeat if they could! Wouldn’t a massive uprising there be a hoot!

  • renl57

    The Japanese have a more pithy and concise way of explaining all that.

    Their condolence card probably contained just two words:

    “So sorry.”

  • throwback59

    entered North Korea. In a daring operation that I planned, they parachuted onto Kim’s train dressed as waiters…”

  • blooch

    http://gawker.com/5165759/sulzberger-son-being-taught-by-the-best

  • Right Reason

    http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2004/ea_nkorea_06_16.html

  • Castor

    Kim Jong Il consumed heroic quantities of their $750 a bottle cognac while his people starved. We can only hope that Ayatollah Khameni will soon join the brutal butcher of Pyongyang to burn in hell.

  • Castor

    Kim Jong Il consumed heroic quantities of their $750 a bottle cognac while his people starved. We can only hope that Ayatollah Khameni will soon join the brutal butcher of Pyongyang to burn in hell.

  • buddyp

    nt

  • http://edgeinducedcohesion.wordpress.com nathanalbright

    ….you actually have to pay some dues before you succeed, and in some you are given lots of power without having learned how to behave responsibly.