There aren't many people in the world that I think we'd be better off without. He's on that list.
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Dennis Rodman says this can’t be true.
This is not surprising given how strange the family is
What is also interesting is how China reacted.
If china stops aid the people of NK will all starve.
This will not end well.
I thought that they had dropped a mortar on him?
Leftist totalitarian dictators always become brutal murderers. It’s because they have total power and no accountability. They have control of the all-encompassing power of the government: troops, guns, courts, jail.
I hope you see the paralell with current modern-day dictators.
If being the #2 guy in the gulag doesn’t offer some protection, what benefit does anyone have staying loyal to the boy king? With with no heir apparent, what would happen to a general or colnel who put a bullet into the little piggy’s brain?
There aren't many people in the world that I think we'd be better off without. He's on that list.
Chilling effect on any real reform?
The unccle was cut from the exact same cloth and had been caught forming a private army - probably for a coup.
The aunt sided with her nephew over her husband and I don’t think the recently departed was a lessor despot.
I feel bad about this like I feel bad when rival jihadi sects slaughter one another.
He’s one sick puppy. May he last not long...
I guess it’s a comfy cozy thing that these animals have nukes?
She just might get the old Anne Boleyn treatment.
Those 300 party leaders, as well as the senior military leaders, just may be thinking "I might be next", and decide it's time for him to go.
I thought they used a mortar. They have used animals for executions before though. They would put large boulders on people to trap them and then let cows and hogs eat them.
Word of caution.
This may or may not be true. Rumors fly, by definition, about secretive groups.
I certainly would not put it past Lil Kim, though.
Spectacular cruelty against the inner circle often doesn’t end well. Tends to create an incentive for them to kill Dear Leader before he kills them. Kim just doesn’t look like someone capable of keeping the reigns for long in such turbulent waters. (To thoroughly scramble a metaphor.)
Stalin is an exception to the general rule of it being a bad idea to make a habit of killing the inner circle.
How does somebody that weird come into existence?
A modern day Caligula.
Sad that Obama can only dream of feeding his opposition to the dogs!
If true to form, this should indicate to the Obama Administration that NK is a country that we can negotiate or have a “dialogue” with. /s
The Nork government has little about it that is Communist in any real sense of the word, other than rhetoric.
It has instead reverted to a loonnggg history of God-Kings and rule by military officials, that goes back probably close to 2000 years before conquest by Japan around 1900.
This history includes repeated vicious court faction fights, with the losers (and their supporters, extended families, etc.) generally purged up into the tens of thousands of people.
Then a few years later another faction would get on top and repeat the process. This history is addressed somewhat obliquely in the Korean movie War of the Arrows.
Don't see much discussion of this, as the media doesn't seem to be aware that Korea is a country with a very long history.
Dogs eating Koreans- How ironic