by Smitty
BBC News has an un-embeddable clip.
They also mention that Kim Jong Il’s son, the apparent new leader of the Norks, is a fine young orator, who, despite having a Marxist past and neither academic nor private sector credentials, and having been merely ‘present’ for a little while around the capitol, is expected to enjoy a regime propped up through muscular control of the media.
Update: American Power rounds up the headlines. Ace trots out the flaming skull to light up the North Korean darkness.
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Hey, I know someone who resembles that remark.
Dammit, Lisa! You beat me to it!
The kid spent a good part of his life abroad, so he’s seen how the
world lives. If he’s smart, he’ll open the country up, pursue
unification, and rejoin the IAEA and NPT and get rid of the nukes in
exchange for a flood of food aid.
If he acts quickly, he has enough support to start it and once it starts the people will really see him as a Beloved Leader.
Unfortunately, the odds are he will follow Bashir Assad in filling
Daddy’s shoes. There are certain ego gratifications to being a
virtually absolute dictator.
You are worthless Kim Jong Il…
Working on a post right now and will link you, Smitty…
Several links here at Tim Blair’s newspaper blog including 10 crazy facts about Kim
http://tinyurl.com/8ywj6rb
They are also both elitist-son slackers who’ve never had a real job in their lives before becoming president.
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That would be the Dear Leader Lite, Barack Hussein Obama. Oops! My bad! Can we call him by his FULL name?! LOL!
Okay, got you linked. Kim’s son, Kim Jong Eun, can be seen at the video clip at the post: ‘North Korea’s Kim Jong Il Has Died’.
Time for a sequel to “Team America: World Police”!
Has anyone ever seen Charles Johnson and Kim Jong Il in the same place at the same time?
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There’s no way in hell that could ever happen even if he wanted it to happen, which I doubt he does. That system is rigged more than any other in history. If reform ever happened to South Korea, it would have to start with the military high brass, and that’s almost as unlikely as any one leader pushing it.
The military brass might wind up acting like the old Soviet Politburo, in which case reforms may happen but over a period of time. Nobody will want to stick their neck out and do something considered rash.
That is if fatty mcbutterpants kid really becomes a figurehead. He may turn out to be worse than Daddy…yeeesh.
Whatever the case may be, the new Kim certainly adds to NK’s average adult weight ratio.
Has anyone seen Kim Jong [Very] Il’s son and Little Barry in the same room???
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I think the NK military is a lot more disciplined than the old Soviet Politburo, and even more controlling. Once somebody rises in the ranks they have every reason to keep the system going and absolutely no reason to make waves. That’s why the place hasn’t changed to any measurable degree over sixty some years.
I would have agreed 10 years ago, but the internal situation is starting to really unwind in NK — as witness that defection that took place a short time ago; something’s up (and it isn’t the economy).
Of course, what I was suggesting was the best case scenario — that the military leadership will decide they don’t want to follow sonny boy, in which case (and with some behind the scenes prompting from China) they lighten things up but still keep the system (and the role of being China’s buffer and pet not quite as feral dog). Worst case is Butterpants is even more ruthless, “mercurial”, and decadent than Daddy.