Posted on 09/09/2008 6:50:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il has reportedly failed to appear at the country's 60th anniversary parade - amid rumours that he is seriously unwell or even dead. South Korea's military said the North had been massing weapons for days to show them off in its capital during the event. The spectacle followed a report in the South's Chosun Ilbo newspaper that the 66-year-old reclusive leader was suspected of suffering a chronic illness. He collapsed last month, the paper added, citing a South Korean diplomatic source in Beijing.
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I’ve waited YEARS to post that!...........
I hope Maddy's black dress doesnt have any stains left over from the Clinton years. She may need it soon.
He’s as good as dead if he actually hasn’t reached that state yet.
The communists in the inner circle are already jockeying for position, and getting rid of an incapacited predecessor is part of the political process in this kind of regime.
He may.............
BBC REPORTS:...North Korean officials deny reports of Kim's death by publishing yesterdays official greeting photo of the leader in todays news
Another community organizer passes on.....
Who’s next in line? Might not be a bad idea to start looking at the post Jong-Il regime. A more robust, mentally-capable leader might do more than posture and threaten; they might actually provoke an incident in the DMZ. Or, they might clean house and modernize the country, bringing it at least as far into the light of capitalism as the parent country of China. And whoever the next prez is, gets to deal with that: How would each candidate deal with a revitalized Tiger N. Korea where labor can be had at near-slave wages? Alternatively, how would each candidate deal with a belligerent N. Korea that actually starts heading for the DMZ with an army? Interesting that this is coming up now, just as we head into the election.
I guess he is no longer “ronery”
Hopefully deader than a roadkill possum
He rooks sooo rife rike.....
Now he’s cold AND ronery.........
He’s dead, Jim..........
So Wikipedia says that even in N. Korea, high officials don’t want to continue the Kim Dynasty. So, if Jong-Il really is out of the picture, do we then see a military junta, or do we see a new non-military president, and which way would they lean?
He’s working at a 7-11 in Ohio with Elvis and Osama Bin Laden.
Your guess is as good s mine. I'd hope the N. Koreans would rejoin the South..............
He evidently has not groomed a successor yet either. He has a bunch of kids, but they are all too young.
If I was one of his kids I would be hot footing it for the border yesterday!
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