Kim Jong-il is dead [Main Thread]

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong-il is dead

[Pinkbell]

Sounds interesting. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks.

[MonicaG]

We've got time before Christmas for Castro, Chavez, and I'madinnerjacket. Is there such a thing as a quadfecta?

Can we add Mugabe to the mix?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Two interesting points:

1) No foreign dignitaries will be invited.

2) N. Korea is currently under blanket curfew.

NK regime is apparently very nervous now. They want to wrap it up ASAP without any hitch. Not inviting foreign dignitaries for the funeral of N. Korea’s demigod is very unusual.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Flag being lowered at DPRK embassy in Chi-Com City (Beijing) just now:

[af_vet_rr]

Analysis coming from Maehara, former Foreign Minister (of ruling DPJ here in Tokyo) is that we now enter a period of possible civil war and outflow of refugees. He is not discounting it, in national TV. I hope he is incorrect. He is just saying what COULD happen. Man things are TENSE TODAY.

North Korea is going to bust wide open one of these years. Too much famine, and now there is a kid, relatively speaking, at the head of the government, who might be at odds with the old guys that actually run the place.

Even if he was interested in reform, no reform can happen without order falling apart in a country as bad off as North Korea. I would not be surprised if North Korea tried to create their own version of the Mariel boatlift. Would get the people out of the country who are most likely to start a civil war or support a coup.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Very tenuous. Very tenuous. I think some renegade divisions could make a move. One wonders what the hell is going on at Musudanri and Pyonggyeok right now, who is giving directions, who is in control of the mobile ICBM launchers which have just been discovered. I bet we get eye in the sky double time and Cobra Ball, etc. up and ASAP, no telling what the hell could come down by some power mad individual.

[MonicaG]

What about the missing North Korean anchor? There probably is no connection, though.

Interesting. After seeing the YouTubes of the 1994 death of his father, Kim Il Sung, perhaps that's when Kim Jong Il actually died/was assasinated and she couldn't keep it together emotionally to do her job. Those people in the 1994 video's are INSANELY losing it, like their own family had died... yet with a theatrical aspect that makes it credible that fear of displaying any lesser reaction might betray a lack of loyalty of the Deal Leader (or whatever old Jong Il was called).

[TigerLikesRooster]

Update: per DailyNK

http://www.dailynk.com/korean/read.php?cataId=nk04500&num=93401

Order of ‘Special Guard’ came down to border guard units at 1 AM, Dec. 18, one day before the announcement. They are ordered to impose the complete lockdown of the border.

[americanophile]

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping Seven of Nine.

[yank in the UK]

Vaclav Havel is to Kim Jong Il as Farrah Fawcett is to Michael Jackson    

[Deo volente]

Asian stock markets NOT liking the news. South Korea is down 3.4% tonight.

U.S. Dow futures down 74 at the moment.

[miele man]

Slack jawed as I watch these scenes. “Histrionics” doesn’t begin to describe it adequately. Amazing.

[Allegra]

I'm So Ronery

[tcrlaf]

“1) No foreign dignitaries will be invited.”

They might see the bullet hole in the back of his head.

[MrEdd]

Okay, I’ll play your silly game:

The former are two foreign men, and the latter are two white women.

What did I win?

[Enchante]

North Koreans rally around Kim Jong Il’s heir
AP – 9 mins ago

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea is calling Kim Jong Il’s son a “great successor” to the country’s guiding principle of self reliance, as the country rallies around heir-apparent Kim Jong Un as the next leader.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency says the country “must faithfully revere respectable comrade Kim Jong Un.”

http://news.yahoo.com/north-koreans-rally-around-kim-jong-ils-heir-044409293.html

[yank in the UK]

Lol!

[Enchante]

This sounds like officials are getting behind the Boy at least as a figurehead??

Whether he will have real power is the question?

[RitchieAprile]

I’m sure the succession was decided months ago and all is occurring according to plan. Not as if one couldn’t see this coming..