[AmericanInTokyo]

Thank you. Have read this stuff for years in Japanese and Korean.

The more Americans know about this buzzard, the better.

I am only a bit disappointed it has taken this long for most people to truly be introduced to Kim Jong il, after all his regime has done to people and the fact the nutcase commands one of the largest standing armies on the face of the earth.

Are we ever late and lazy in cracking the books and studying our adversaries overseas. But, at least it is a start.

[Sender]

My only previous exposure to NK's leader was when US churches tried to send a large boatload of food to the starving North Koreans and Kim Jong Il turned it away, saying some ridiculous requirement about only accepting shoebox-sized rations with only certain contents such as flour, beans etc. The churches actually complied and repackaged as much as possible into shoeboxes as ordered, and Il turned the food away again. I couldn't believe he would rather let his own people starve than to have any exposure to Western help.