New book out in Japan. (Actually, it is a 'manga' comic book). Hey, I'll just (freep)translate:
Title: "The Last Days of Kim Jong-Il"
Subtitle: "So Long, Great General!"
Sub-sub title: "The Final Scenario for the End of Political Terror"
Posted on 11/29/2004 7:31:37 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Survival Mode?
With his economy in tatters and international pressure rising, Kim Jong Il may be running out of options
By Hideko Takayama and Christian Caryl Newsweek
International Dec. 6 issue - You have to give credit to Kim Jong Il for one thing—he knows the score. The North Korean leader's subjects may be largely ignorant of the bleak situation in their country, owing to the country's all-encompassing propaganda machine, but Kim himself clearly has no illusions. Shortly after the revolutions that toppled half-a-dozen communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe back in 1989, according to Japanese journalist and North Korea watcher Ryo Hagiwara, Kim informed members of his ruling circle that he and they could easily end up like deposed Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu if they didn't watch their step. For a full week in early 1990, Kim forced North Korean officials to watch multiple video showings of Ceausescu's bloody death at the hands of an angry mob and warned his colleagues of the dangers of losing control. One defector told Hagiwara that he recalled Kim obsessively repeating, "We will be killed by the people."
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Ping!
Recently some prominent North Koreans military officers travelled to Cuba for a visit. May be they were looking for a sanctuary in the event they need to leave in a hurry.
Plus the beachs are nice and they still take Yankee dollars, no matter what Fidel says.
I'm so rone-ry.
Interestingly enough, they arrived the same day that the Chinese delegation did.
LOL...thanks for my morning laugh...
I didn't know that. Makes it all the more curiouser and , maybe, heartening. Regime change in North Korea would likely be another step for freedom.
You and I think a lot alike. I just read this in Japanese on the web not more than 20 minutes ago.
I do recall Kim Jong il's famous quote to a visiting foreign dignitary who was standing with him on the dais during one of those massive military parades with folks holding posters of him as if he were God.
He reported said to the guest: "See all those people, the masses? It looks like they worship me. But they don't. It's not in their hearts. They'd just as soon kill me." He guest was shocked at the blunt nature of the comments. Not real diplomatic protocol going there, but an interesting peak at least.
The guy is very very paranoid of a bullet in the brain. But on the other hand, he has every reason to be that way.
Iran is not too comfortable right now either.
North Korea's top military officer visits Cuba:HAVANA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - China's President Hu Jintao arrived in Cuba on Monday on his first visit as Chinese leader to offer the Western Hemisphere's only communist state closer political and economic ties.
HAVANA (AFP) Nov 22, 2004 North Korea's top military officer Kim Yong-Chun is heading a delegation that began an official visit to communist-led Cuba on Monday, according to an official statement. Vice Marshal Kim, chief of the general staff of the Korean People's Army, and his delegation will visit the Revolutionary Armed Forces Ministry headed by President Fidel Castro's younger brother, Raul Castro, according to the statement released in state-run newspapers.
Kim Jong-il has little illusions about his depressing odds. Thus, he would stay alive even at the horrendous expense of others.
However, the mushy left in S. Korea and in U.S. are full of illusions. I wonder if Kim could hold back his contempt at them.
Hey don't you know all of this stuff was gonna happen anyway w/o Bush's policies, it's just a matter of time. (Liberal refrain from the Reagan years and the collapse of the USSR).
Which one comes first? For a truly bizarro scenario, try the SK weasels, upon seeing victory, raising the white flag seeking "resolution." Fascism being so profitable for those in charge they might jump at the opportunity.
heh heh. just imagine a broadcast of this video in NK. people might get ideas.
As I've seen on posters and banners at so many lefty marches, "Revolution is the Festival of the Oppressed!"
A Ceaucescu retirement party for Sonny-Boy Kim!
Heads On Pikes!
....funds for mass drops of portable radios on the North....
The congressional action implies the ability to overfly, uncontested, at will. It doesn't seem possible.
OHH Man you got feel sorry for Little Kim he is roarny LOLOLOL!!!
NOTTT
New book out in Japan. (Actually, it is a 'manga' comic book). Hey, I'll just (freep)translate:
Title: "The Last Days of Kim Jong-Il"
Subtitle: "So Long, Great General!"
Sub-sub title: "The Final Scenario for the End of Political Terror"
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