We both have waited for this moment for who knows how long. Finally, it has arrived. Thanks for you comment. For better or worse, one page of (very sorry) history is finally over. It is about time. I knew he would die sooner than most have predicted. I guess he smoked too much, to the dismay of his doctors.:-)
Analysis coming from Maehara, former Foreign Minister (of ruling DPJ here in Tokyo) is that we now enter a period of possible civil war and outflow of refugees. He is not discounting it, in national TV. I hope he is incorrect. He is just saying what COULD happen. Man things are TENSE TODAY.
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)”