Below from Jason Strother of BBC/PRI re the heavyweight opera voice of TV star Ri Chun Hee in the classic video reporting the death of the Devil, Kim. My favorite is the backdrop of pine forests and mountains. DPRK is a failed, rogue state of Devils and the doomed. Unacceptable conduct since at least 1950, making war on its own people and anyone in the neighborhood. Ike traveled stealthily to Korea in December 1952 to meet the same intransigence we see today. The Kim cult is sadistic, homicidal, paranoid, repetitive and now nuke-armed. Beijing has used the Kim cult for at least thirty years to distribute missile and nuke proliferation guidance to other failed, rogue states of Devils. One-Party states are always on fire, and any pact with a One-Party state is a joint suicide deal. No solving DPRK and the Kim cult (now unto the third generation of sadists) until there is a solution to the One-Party sadistic state of Beijing's Central Committee. Bad lunch hours in CPville these days, with Wukan defiant, Kim inorganic, manufacturing shrinking, and the loan portfolio of the city state bonds nearly as credit worthy as Madoff -- and now the absurd Kim Jung Un on the Boss Devil throne.
JASON STROTHER: There's a familiar face that greets North Koreans when they tune in to watch the news. An older woman, dressed in a traditional pink gown, bows to the camera before speaking... That's Ri Chun Hee. She appears at the top of every newscast. Her beat is the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. She reports every public appearance Kim makes, and recites the praises he's said to receive from abroad. According to a profile in a North Korean magazine, Ri was born in 1943. She's worked as a reporter for nearly 40 years. Analysts say landing a news anchor job in North Korea isn't easy. You have to demonstrate ideological credentials and come from a trustworthy family just to get into journalism school....
The South Koreans should hold their breath as Kim Jong Un "proves" himself of his followers loyalty.
The Kim cult is sadistic, homicidal, paranoid, repetitive and now nuke-armed.
You omitted trite, a word you use so much that I had begun to suspect that your MacBook had a key specially dedicated to it. What gives?
Wrong link.
So. What does the Kim Jung Un say to his military about the people? Let them eat rice cake?
so Kim Jung Il is celebrated for going 1 out of 3 as far as producing offspring for the succession plan. At least this kid has a few more years to produce an inheritance-worthy male.
But how does this man-boy (not to be confused with the Obama man-boy) exercise any authority whatsoever over the military? Are a bunch of 70 year old generals really going to take marching orders from this overfed young fellow who shows no sign of ever having used a razor? Not so much. The launch of missiles the same day his father days is a clear sign the meaning of which will become clear in time.
I give him a year. He'll either get disappeared or march on the south. The fun is just beginning.
I give him a year. He'll either get disappeared or march on the south.
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific. Similar predictions were made about Kim Jong-il's fate upon the death of his father, if I recall rightly.
History is replete with examples of weak emperors who reign while their officials or even wives rule from behind the scenes, and not only in Asia. George Bush stands as a striking example of this, as does his successor. Like the two-party duopoly, will control by the studiously ignored Man Behind the Curtain become a built-in feature of American political life?