[AmericanInTokyo]

This clip may not last. Please take a look if you can. Be patient, it is in Korean, but after 30 second brief intro by the South Korean announcer, you'll 'get it'.

The video can be seen at the link URL above, and by then hitting the

on that page,

or here (cut and paste, view and go to that spot on the page, below Kim's photo, and view) at 300k speed:

http://www.ytn.co.kr/news/news_view.php?cd=0104&key=200411180555011182

[michaelbfree]

maybe he gave himself a promotion to "the dumbest dictator on the planet"

[AmericanInTokyo]

anyong haseyo!

[Southack]

My first bet would be that North Korea is still playing the part of the crazy Aunt in the attic...and that this is merely part of a ruse on their part to convince the world that they are so crazy that they need to be handled with diplomatic kid gloves.

[FormerACLUmember]

Kim Jong Il's Team America song:

I'm so Ronery / So Ronery / So Ronery and Sadry Arone / There's No One / Just me Onry / Sitting on my rittle throne / I work very hard and make up great plans / but nobody listens, no one understands / Seems rike no one takes me Serious-RY / And so I'm Ronery / A rittle ronery / Poor rittle me / There's no one I can rerate to / fell rike a bird in a cage / Its kinda sirry / but not rearry / because its firring my body with rage / I'm the smartest most clever most physically fit / but not one at all seems to re-a-rize it / Maybe someday they'll all notice meeee / And until then, I'll be ronery / Yeah, a rittle ronery / Poor rittle me...

[cripplecreek]

Could it be that the North Korean military realized that their fearless leader was a nut job who was going to get a lot of people killed?

[Shermy]

"how North Korean TV (male announcer, note the NK communist lapel pin) had referred to Kim Jong-il in the past"

You don't mean past tense, right?

[bahblahbah]

Maybe this has to do with Bush's reelection. Maybe the generals got to him and said, "We're F*****d".

[Kokojmudd]

Anyong Hashimnika to you. Hopefully the we dae han jackass in chief will get a chong-ahl through his rotten mawri soon!

[Ecliptic]

Well, taking down his pictures HAS to be more than his favorite concubine kicking off......and now this...something is going on....

[the Real fifi]

I always like reading your posts--What do YOU think is going on?

[PetroniusMaximus]

This coming on the heels of Bush's reelection is interesting...


Arafat dead.

Iran blinks.

Now this...


Very interesting.

[isom35]

"I'm so roneree, yes I'm roneree..." (team america)

[firebrand]

Cardinal Montalto on his crutches?

[yonif]

Add that incident to reports of his photos being taken down and it continues to remain interesting. What is the meaning of all of this? Possible successor being planned?

[Godzilla]

Something definitely is afoot there. Please ping me on significant developments. thanks.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Hmmm...could it be the guy kicked the bucket, mysteriously and recently, and its being kept on the downlow? Anyone? Anyone?? Bueller?

[bahblahbah]

I'm starting to think that China is using NK as a bargaining chip. China wants to have most the influence in NK. Maybe if China takes care of NK then we look the other way on Taiwan. Plus if NK turns more west friendly thats just more cheap labor they can use to make crap to flood our markets.

[Ptarmigan]

I hope Kim Jong-Il rots in Hell for eternity.

[Shqipo]

Kim Jong Il is a fanatical lover of Movies. He could be holed up with a bootleg copy of The Invincibles. But preferably, he's dead or in a rubber cage.

[Grut]

Well, that's it, then: the NK media found out he voted for Bush.