Kim Jong II - RIP

[Rhodes]

Sad news folks, the North Korean Leader Kim Jong II has sadly passed away aged just 69, RIP:

 

http://www.dailymail...im-Jong-Il.html

 

 

 

North Korean legend has it that Kim Jong Il was born on Mount Paekdu, one of Korea's most cherished sites, in 1942, a birth heralded in the heavens by a pair of rainbows and a brilliant new star.

Soviet records, however, indicate he was born in Siberia, in 1941.

Kim, a graduate of Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University, was 33 when his father anointed him his eventual successor.

 

 

He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father, Kim Il Sung, and built according to the principle of 'juche,' or self-reliance.

 

He took over after his father died in 1994, eventually taking the posts of chairman of the National Defense Commission, commander of the Korean People's Army and head of the ruling Worker's Party while his father remained as North Korea's 'eternal president.

 

He faithfully carried out his father's policy of 'military first,' devoting much of the country's scarce resources to its troops - even as his people suffered from a prolonged famine - and built the world's fifth-largest military.

Kim also sought to build up the country's nuclear arms arsenal, which culminated in North Korea's first nuclear test explosion, an underground blast conducted in October 2006. Another test came in 2009.

Kim was an enigmatic leader. But defectors from North Korea describe him as an eloquent and tireless orator, primarily to the military units that form the base of his support.

 

 

The world's best glimpse of the man was in 2000, when the liberal South Korean government's conciliatory 'sunshine' policy toward the North culminated in the first-ever summit between the two Koreas and followed with unprecedented inter-Korean cooperation.

He cut a distinctive, if oft ridiculed, figure. Short and pudgy at five-foot-three, he wore platform shoes and sported a permed bouffant. His trademark attire of jumpsuits and sunglasses was mocked in such films as 'Team America: World Police,' a movie populated by puppets that was released in 2004.

Kim was said to have cultivated wide interests, including professional basketball, cars and foreign films. He reportedly produced several North Korean films as well, mostly historical epics with an ideological tinge.

 

Kim rarely travelled abroad and then only by train because of an alleged fear of flying, once heading all the way by luxury rail car to Moscow, indulging in his taste for fine food along the way.

A Japanese cook later claimed he was Kim's personal sushi chef for a decade, writing that Kim had a wine cellar stocked with 10,000 bottles, and that, in addition to sushi, Kim ate shark's fin soup - a rare delicacy - weekly.

Kim is believed to have curbed his indulgent ways in recent years and looked slimmer in more recent video footage aired by North Korea's state-run broadcaster.

 

 

His marital status was not clear but he is believed to have married once and had at least three other companions. He had at least three sons with two women, as well as a daughter by a third.

His eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, 38, is believed to have fallen out of favor with his father after he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport in 2001 saying he wanted to visit Disney's Tokyo resort.

His two other sons by another woman, Kim Jong Chul and Kim Jong Un, are in their 20s. Their mother reportedly died several years ago.

Kim Jong Un was unveiled as his father's eventual successor in September, 2010.

[RalphC]

Why is it sad?

 

Surely this man was the direct cause of the death of many innocent people who starved to death and those that are alive are forced to live in poverty and under a regime that controls their every word and movement.

[The Doog is King]

Why is it sad?

 

Surely this man was the direct cause of the death of many innocent people who starved to death and those that are alive are forced to live in poverty and under a regime that controls their every word and movement.

 

Yes - because Western democracies dont divert a massive portion of State funding to the Military at the expense of large swathes of the population do they?!

[missunderstood]

Under Kim Jong North Korea has been a basket case of a country for years now, and his heir apparent Kim Jong Un is rumoured to be even madder than his father. You have to feel sorry for the North Koreans who now face a future of more instability and insane policies.

[Loose]

I don't care what anyone says, he was great in Team America.

[The Doog is King]

I don't care what anyone says, he was great in Team America.

 

"You are breaking my balls, Hans".... quality

[Big J R]

Don't trust anyone that controls a country that enjoys boiling dogs alive for food !

[Rhodes]

Over 2 million distraught mourners are expected to line the streets of Pyongyang on 28 December for Kim Jong's 12 hour state funeral. His 5 foot 3 inch frame was covered in a red satin sheet with his head resting on a white pillow, placed around him was a huge display of red 'Kimjonglia' flowers especially created for him personally in the 80's.

[BBB]

Apparently the buffet at his funeral was the dogs b0ll0cks

[Big J R]

Apparently the buffet at his funeral was the dogs b0ll0cks

 

[Rhodes]

Lets keep this topic serious folks and I see that North Korea have issued a brief but hard hitting statement, following Kim Jong's sad death, that it's very much business as usual, it read 'We declare solemnly and confidently that the foolish politicians around the world, including the puppet group in South Korea, should not expect any change from us':

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16361378

 

[Loose]

Anyone else find the footage of North Korea's new "Supreme Commander" Kim Jong Short Fat 'Airey Un trying to keep up with the funeral cortege hysterical?

 

At one stage he grabbed hold of one of the car doors and was being dragged along while his little legs were racing nineteen to the dozen.

[Horace]

Always a bit scary though, when it appears that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum! Apparently Fat Boy went to school in Switzerland, so he'll probably not nuke them - are we near enough to the land of cuckoo clocks to be safe?

 

Oops - he's already retaliated by having my Gold Member status removed, and put me on "warn status!"

Edited December 30, 2011 by Horace

[Loose]

He is Immortal and Omnipotent. Which means that he won't die like his dad. Who also was, er, immortal. Cough...

[missunderstood]

He is Immortal and Omnipotent. Which means that he won't die like his dad. Who also was, er, immortal. Cough...

 

Not much point in him breeding a successor then.

[Big J R]

The new one is nothing but a puppet.

 

Dogs in North Korea are quivering.

 

The CIA are devastated.

 

I'm arming a nuke !