Posted on 10/11/2010 9:42:01 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Kim Jong Un appears live on Nork TV for 1st Time before thousands of goose-stepping soldiers...
At a massive ceremony in Pyongyang, North Korea yesterday, Kim Jong Un -favored son of Stalinist dictator Kim Jong-Il- reviewed a massive military parade alongside his father in a ceremony dedicated to celebrating the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea.
The younger Kim's appearance in front of 20,000 troops, heavy weaponry, and huge crowds came two days after a senior official appeared to confirm that he would be the secretive state's next leader: "Our people are honoured to serve the great president Kim Il-sung and the great leader Kim Jong-il. Now we also have the honour of serving the young general Kim Jong-un." he was quoted as saying on Friday.
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The Telegraph (UK):
The presence of senior Chinese officials and rarely-invited foreign media at the weekend-long celebrations further confirmed that Kim Jong-un was being anointed in public.
Until a few months ago, Kim, the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il, was all but unknown, both to the outside world and inside his secretive homeland. But with his ailing father, who is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 and who now walks with a pronounced limp, desperate to ensure that a third generation of the Kim family succeeds him, the Swiss-educated Kim Jong-un, has risen rapidly in North Korea's hierarchy.
Last month, he was appointed as a 4-star general and as vice-chairman of the Workers Party's central military commission. Despite Kim Jong-un's lack of experience in government, his succession seems to have been approved by China, North Korea's only true ally, which fears instability in the DPRK will lead to a flood of refugees across its borders.
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Those poor bastards better hope this kid did something other than ski and chase blondes in Switzerland, because the mess he's about to inherit is a decrepit economic basket-case ten times worse than East Germany ever was.
And despite the rhetoric, the South Koreans want little or nothing to do with fixing this penniless Stalinist hell- they couldn't afford to absorb it even if they wanted to. East Germany bled the West white, and it's still just limping-along. And South Korea is no Germany, either... hard to see how reunification will ever work there, really-
YouTube of military parade -here-
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Looks like he hasn’t missed a meal in a long time.
I shall call him Mini-Me. How does that sound to you Mr. Bigglesworth? Muahahahha
The kindest thing the West could do for the Norks is to nuke them.
lol
We won’t be laughing when our Dear Leader tries to hand power off to Dalia, lol
The Kim family went from running N. Korea to being puppets for the military. This kid is a figurehead, nothing more. This is a military dictatorship, nothing less. You would have to take out their military, since the military lives off the rest of the country and doesn’t want to lose what few perks it now gets.
Looks like the NK Army has adopted the Russian trend of
outlandish sized officer headgear.
Are you kidding?
That stuff is all USSR hand-me-downs... that’s why the hats and jackets look like they got them from their big brother... THEY DID, lolol
I completely agree... they struck a deal with the old man in 1993, that’s why it doesn’t matter which one is in there... even a 27 yr old kid. A squirrel could be leader, wouldn’t make any difference
I think likewise the military is the real power and the kid is only a figurehead. Okay, we see that he can clap. I wonder if he’s potty trained?
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