One of the most brutal tyrants in history is dead. Lets just hope his sons aren't as evil as he and his father were.
One of the most brutal tyrants in history is dead. Lets just hope his sons aren't as evil as he and his father were.
I doubt it
Wanna bet it'll be a little worse? Son's are younger and "more creative"
It's funny because I just watched the Epic Rap Battle of History with Kim Jong Il...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdug6yHJB40
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
The king is dead! Long live the king!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKTb5Nfyh1o
Knucklehead!
MATT DAMON!
Sounds like the plot to HomeFront is coming true. 
Interesting. But I doubt there will be any greater a threat.
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Cracked said: On paper, North Korea's military looks pretty scary. It's the most militarized country on the planet, has the fourth largest army in the world and spends a larger portion of its GDP on the military than any other state. E36 M3, how is it not dangerous? North Korea may spend a huge chunk of its GDP on its army, but its GDP is tiny -- which shouldn't surprise you, considering the chief exports are requests for food aid and passive-aggressive threats. In actual dollars, North Korea's military budget is only five to eight billion dollars. By comparison, South Korea's military budget is over triple that. Actually, South Korea spends more on its army than North Korea has in its entire budget. This is important because South Korea is North Korea's most likely target, and most experts agree the South would now destroy the North before America had time to get their aircraft carriers wet. That's because North Korea's advantage in raw numbers has some pretty serious caveats. Their most advanced weapons are based on technology from the '60s, and some of that cutting-edge equipment probably isn't functional because of fuel shortages and poor maintenance. Of course, you could have an army of a dozen paraplegics with Nerf guns and still be a threat if you had nuclear weapons. But while it's true that North Korea does have a nuclear program, they lack the technology to effectively deliver a warhead. Imagine North Korea as Wile E. Coyote, and the rest of the world as the Road Runner. The Coyote may be able to afford a giant ACME anvil, but he doesn't know how to accurately drop it on the Road Runner -- he'll miss, and maybe even hurt himself in the process. North Korea's nuclear program is like that, except if the Coyote got lucky and somehow scored a hit, the Road Runner would turn around and obliterate him. Again, the media's version of events relies on the very specific appeal to reason that assumes because a country could do something, they might actually do it. For instance, President Obama could text a picture of his junk to The New York Times right now. He has the technological capacity to do it. Nevertheless, we can say with one hundred percent certainty that he won't do that because it would be suicidal. That's why experts agree that North Korea isn't going to start a war, nuclear or conventional. It knows that if it did that, step two would be getting quickly turned into the world's largest parking lot. So instead, it's going to sit around and lob ridiculous threats at the West like the YouTube commenters of the international community. And our media is going to read them to us on the nightly news.
Wow. Hope for the best. Expect the worst. One more prick no longer among the living. Man, dude who won the last presidential election got a lot of history thrown his way. Let's hope he deals with it all well.
Nth Korea is opening up now, they all want what we all have and are luring Chinese companies to manufacturer there right now. Presently you can drive your own car into some limited areas up North from the Chinese border and also travel there in groups on a guided tour. I hope to get over there soon to have a look.
http://www.koryogroup.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/heavy-metal-tour-to-north-korea/
It's good if Kim has snuffed it as they have a chance to now change for the better but probably looking at 10 to 20 years for progression.
Is it just me or do you find it weird many of the leaders are being killed or are dying lately. Very, very strange.
I am hoping that the son has a secret like for all things western. I am glad the old man is gone but at least he was for the most part a known enemy. Now everyone will be walking on egg shells with the son.
Fletch1 wrote: Is it just me or do you find it weird many of the leaders are being killed or are dying lately. Very, very strange.
Have you noticed their general age ...
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I understand he was a big fan of Daffy Duck.
It wouldn't be a good idea to treat them as completely harmless kooks. The PRK may have all kinds of old fashioned crap in their arsenal and no real rocket for delivery of nukes, but there's enough there to cobble together a nuke which could be stashed on, say, a deep sea fishing boat and then detonated in a harbor somewhere. Sure they'd become a parking lot almost imediately afterward but that would be small consolation if, say, Tokyo or New York or London was a smoking hole in the ground.
Gotta watch Craig Ferguson tonight, he always had a comment or two about "the world's angriest lesbian" whenever Mr. Kim made the news.
So ronery.
dean1484 wrote: I am hoping that the son has a secret like for all things western. I am glad the old man is gone but at least he was for the most part a known enemy. Now everyone will be walking on egg shells with the son.
Why would it be a secret? Kim Jong Il had a pretty well documented love of everything outside his own country. Both him and his son were educated in Europe.
If you've got some time to kill and want to learn more about N. Korea, then check out this fascinating, heartbreaking documentary, Welcome to North Korea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAQ7MZVzIk
it was inevitable...
Ross wrote:dean1484 wrote: I am hoping that the son has a secret like for all things western. I am glad the old man is gone but at least he was for the most part a known enemy. Now everyone will be walking on egg shells with the son.Why would it be a secret? Kim Jong Il had a pretty well documented love of everything outside his own country. Both him and his son were educated in Europe.
I am hoping it would translate to them being at the very least neutral to the west as opposed to being a saber rattling pain in the .. .. . .
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