Posted on 12/18/2011 7:13:39 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il is dead
Same with Saddams sons and we know how they ruled Iraq. Remains to be seen what he will do but doesn't appear currently he's really going to have much power of his own. The dynamics could easily change over time but no doubt in my mind China will have the most say in how this ultimately plays out long term.
hey AIT they saying on NHK world news on PBS station that this Chia Chub baby sister that who
I hear she is Dee Dee of What Happening fame in Chia Pet family LOL!
OMG he is seriel killer tortute animals?
WTF AIT he is Chia Chub the Seriel killer
EEEW maybe Chia Pet “die” in Russian hooker bed
WOW that younger version of Pyonagnag Patty didn’t recongize her LOL!
Hey everybody somebody at UK Daily mail got one of Chia Chub Swiss classmate to talk to their paper TODAY
Hey everybody somebody at UK Daily mail got one of Chia Chub Swiss classmate to talk to their paper TODAY
Hey everybody somebody at UK Daily mail got one of Chia Chub Swiss classmate to talk to their paper TODAY
Kim Jong-il ‘Collapsed Last Thursday’
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il collapsed on Dec. 15, two days before North Korea says he died, according to intelligence the South Korean government has received from Japan. The collapse was grave enough for top North Korean officials to convene an emergency meeting, though whether he died then or later is not known.
Seoul apparently received the information from Japan after his death was announced at noon on Monday.
A source on Thursday said a Japanese official attended an international seminar in Pyongyang hosted by North Korea’s Asia Pacific Peace Committee, and on the morning on Dec. 15, he met with the North’s nominal No. 2 official Kim Yong-nam. Everything went as scheduled, but Won Tong-yon, the deputy director of the United Front Department and vice chairman of the Asia Pacific Peace Committee, arrived 40 minutes late to the dinner scheduled to start at 7 p.m., looking distressed and telling the guests that he had to attend an emergency meeting.
Won then went to Sunan Airport in Pyongyang on Friday morning to see off the guests, who were scheduled to board a 7:30 a.m. flight for Beijing. He was apparently enraged by the sight of a Christmas tree in the airport lobby and ordered airport officials to dismantle it, telling them, “This is no time to light this up.”
“It appears that Kim Jong-il suffered a serious health problem on Thursday afternoon, prompting an emergency among the North’s top officials, but his condition improved a little, causing Won to come to the dinner late,” the source said. “Maybe the reason he got angry at the airport on Friday morning was that Kim Jong-il had died.”
That would square with an account by Liberty Forward Party lawmaker Park Sun-young, who claimed intelligence suggests that Kim did not die aboard his train on Saturday but around 1:30 a.m. on Friday at a villa around 40 km from his home in Pyongyang.
The summer villa has hospital facilities and is connected by underground tunnel to Kim’s official residence, according to Park. Japan’s Asahi TV reported that Kim died near the villa at around 1 a.m. on Saturday and asked his bodyguard for some water before he died.
No foreign dignitaries invited to Kim's funeral... except for a Japanese magician
Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 2:20 PM Share
The official mourning period for late leader Kim Jong Il has begun in North Korea, which will culminate in a state funeral on Dec. 28. Foreign representatives have been banned from visiting Pyongyang to pay their respects. I can't imagine the guest list of world leaders would be particularly long, but China and Russia might want to send mid-level functionaries and Hugo Chavez may want to say a final farewell to his dear “comrade.” It seems like an odd decision, but then again, this is North Korea.
Not that there aren't any foreign VIPs on the invite list. Japanese magician Tenko Hikita, better known as Princess Tenko, has reportedly been invited:
Ms Hikita, who has performed several magic shows in North Korea, received the invitation over the phone and via e-mail from one of Kim's relatives, the manager said, adding that the magician has not yet decided whether to attend.[...]
The magician was invited to North Korea in 1998 and 2000 to perform magic shows and attend Kim's private dinners, the manager said.
Kim was apparently a big fan of her act, and there are even (totally unsubstantiated, most-likely complete British tabloid fantasy) rumors of a romantic relationship between the two. Of course, Kim had some magical powers of his own. North Korea's official news agency has been reporting strange natural phenomena including landslides and an eerie glow around Mt. Paektu — Kim's supposed birthplace — since the Dear Leader's death.
/being my excerpts
Kim Jong-il - Indication of Deteriorating Health Emerged Since Sept.
Sources from Dandong, “Many reputable foreign doctors went to Pyongyang in Sept.”
Since last September, three months before N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s death, there were indications that his health was deteriorating.
According to what sources on N. Korea in Dandong, China, said on Dec. 23, many reputable foreign doctors from Hungary, France, and China went to Pyongyang via China.
One source said, “Those doctors were all heart specialists. It is my understanding that they went there in a hurry at N. Korea's request.”
Another source said, “Rumors were circulating in Dandong area that foreign doctors were going into Pyongyang to treat Kim Jong-il. However, Kim continued his on-site tour and looked active. We figured that it was just a temporary problem and not a serious one.”
/end my excerpts
Link for ==Kim Jong-il ‘Collapsed Last Thursday’==
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/23/2011122300915.html
Neither of you have any reason to know anything about me, but my wife is Korean and I'm a reporter working outside Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., home of the Army Engineer School, Chemical School, and Military Police School. It is hard to be farther away from the centers of news media than rural Missouri, which means I depend upon things like Free Republic to quickly identify news that I should be reading that is not appearing in the standard daily news media that most reporters review.
Again, thank you for your work.
328 posted on Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:36:15 PM by AmericanInTokyo: “It is most fitting you, the great TLR, could be the one to announce this historic event on FR (and right to the point at that), considering your years of in depth reporting and analysis on this regime for the benefit of tens of thousands of Freepers and other observers. Kamsahamnidda and hats off. Not uncorking the champagne just yet because we don't know what the hell this is, what has happened, if he was murdered, if there will be a coup d’ etat against the Boy, what China will do, S. Korean military on alert, Japan saying they cannot confirm who the leader of North Korea is at this time, etc. etc. Whisky, maybe. But not champagne. (12:25 a.m. Eastern Monday, 9:25 p.m. Pacific Sunday)”
Mourners weep at escalator used by Kim Jong-il
20/12 12:23 CET
North Korean state media has released a still photograph of what is believed to have been Kim Jong-il’s last public appearance before he died.
He is seen on a supermarket escalator, with his son and future successor Kim Jong-un among those behind him.
Today the escalator they travelled down has been turned into a shrine.
“I can’t imagine how happy it would make us and our fellow citizens if he could ride on this escalator again,” said one woman, amid a group of mourners, weeping around the moving staircase. “I still feel that he is alive, with his bright smile. I can also hear his voice.”
It is uncertain when Kim Jong-il visited the supermarket in Pyongyang. But what does seem sure is that the escalator he rode on will now have a hallowed place in North Korean history.
Thank you for your support.
Others here are far better equipped than me to comment.
The usual reason would be to say publicly that the heir-apparent is in charge of the military and had the authority to command the test-fire. But in dealing with North Korea, the old science of Soviet-era “Kremlinology” becomes important, plus knowledge of ancient Korean dynastic succession traditions, and I do not have anywhere close to that level of knowledge of current North Korean practices to know if the usual reasons apply here.
What AmericanInTokyo wrote about North Korean TV applies to North Korean military moves as well: “I think we need a) a professional actor or actress, and b) a professional mental health professional...to analyze these North Korean broadcasts.”
Of course, it could also be pure coincidence. Not everything is done for a reason and planned in advance.
795 posted on Friday, December 23, 2011 9:14:09 AM by TigerLikesRooster: “Thank you for your support.”
You are most welcome...
I saw that clip on North Korean TV and just about busted out laughing. I mean those female shopkeepers on the elevator as it was stopped, wailing away, was one of the most surrealistic things I have seen. I do hope God eventually forgives these people for such outright idolotry, a grave sin.
That weirdddd Tiger YIKES
‘He couldn't speak English, didn't pass any exams and was obsessed with basketball and computer games’: Kim Jong Un’s Swiss school days revealed
By Allan Hall
Last updated at 4:14 PM on 22nd December 2011
He is the heir poised to become the next leader of rogue state North Korea.
But a probe into the school days of Kim Jong Un - youngest son of dictator Kim Jong Il - proves he is little more than an academic failure who squandered his education playing computer games and basketball.
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But the signs are not good. Despite having thousands of pounds lavished on his education at a top private school in Switzerland, he didn't leave with even the equivalent of a single GCSE.
When he was just 15 his father took him out of the costly International School Of Berne, where fees now cost around £16,000 a year. He moved him to a nearby state school to save money but he was quickly put in the lower tier in class.
/snip
‘He was good in maths. That sounds like he was a nerd - but he wasn't. He wasn't so hot in other subjects. I suppose in hindsight we could have nicknamed him Dim Jong-un. One day he just disappeared.’
/snip
‘He never joined in. He looked down at his shoes all the time and fidgeted, never seemed easy. He was dipping into a bag from Loeb - that's the fanciest delicatessen in Berne, the kind of place where you can spend 100 euros on a couple of salads.
‘And at that moment I thought of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm where, truly, some are more equal than others.’
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