Well, I don't really have anything meaningful to contribute to the conversation, since everything I know about North Korea, I learn from informative Freeper sources. But it seems like a situation that we ought to learn about instead of hijacking the thread for really lame jokes based on a cultural difference. I imagine English names sound pretty stupid to people who speak Korean, after all.
I don't think Kim Jong-Il is funny, either. Dangerous is more like it. But then there were people who thought Hitler was 'funny', too, before they figured out how much trouble he was going to cause.
And the reason for that is there are a number of Freepers who are researching, translating, giving insight...all kinds of stuff we are NOT going to get from CNN, or even Fox TV about this far away, dangerous, yet central problem to the US and the World.... I am glad you agree that, well, maybe a continuous 24 FR humor thread on Kim Jong il could be set up elsewhere (to satisfy our appetite for humor), kind of like "A Day in the Life" or "Freeper Worldwide Terrorist Threat Report". Folks could go on and on and on and on all day about funny Asian last names over there, and post fun stuff, graphic comics, manga, whatever (fine with me). And then, on the other hand, perhaps we could have these individual threads that are based on the hard work and scholarship of people like TigerLikesRooster, to try to come up with ideas and ascertain the truth re: North Korea, and educate newcomers in the process. Everyone is welcomed to these threads, in order to learn and grow in knowledge.
You miss the point about American humor. Deployed against such hyperventilating egos, it's a service to humanity and an effective counter to their pretentiousness, their mano, and the legends they are trying to build about themselves, their dynasties, and their dynastic mojo.
Nothing like the cream-pie treatment to bring them down a peg or six. Ever see The Great Dictator? I think you just referred to it, obliquely. Well, Charlie Chaplin's film is now recognized as a masterpiece of counterpropaganda. He pied Hitler and Mussolini both, and it's no accident that that was the attitude the average G.I. took to war with him, when it was time to "go shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch!"
Never make getting rid of those guys into a big deal. Cut them down first -- make it sound like just taking out the trash.
Killing their legend, their mystique, and their hold over other people is better even than cutting their throats. After all, kill one dictator and another takes his place. But kill the idea of a Great Leader, and you clean out the whole nest.