Figuratively speaking.
Posted on 10/09/2006 5:37:26 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
SORTING fact from fiction about Kim Jong-il is a difficult task -- even for intelligence services.
On one hand, the North Korean propaganda machine portrays him as the "greatest statesman of the 20th century".
Loyal communists are told his birth was "foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens".
On the other hand, South Korea provides a stream of bizarre anecdotes painting a picture of one of history's most deranged leaders.
Certainly the South has more credibility.
Kim Jong-il, or "Dear Leader", is officially head of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea.
A hard-drinking 64-year-old playboy, he runs the world's most isolationist and centrally controlled nation, often called the "Hermit Kingdom".
For most of his life he lived in the shadow of his father, Kim Il-sung, the first communist dictator of North Korea.
Kim Il-sung, the so-called "Great Leader", died suspiciously in 1994. His son refused to allow doctors into his room after his death. Two of the five helicopters assigned to fly the corpse to Pyongyang crashed, killing the doctors and bodyguards on board.
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Well this is Aussie Age wire AD LOL!
I was watching Fox news they mention his fondness get this Johnny Walker booze and Russian women LOL!
Stark raving nutbag = "one of *history's* most deranged leaders"
"A film buff, Kim Jong-il has a collection of 20,000 videos."
Wonder if his collection includes a copy of Team America?
Come on now … he likes booze, blonds and starving his subjects, sounds like a normal fun loving party guy to me!
He's a commie midget. What else do we need to know?
LBT
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Hard Drinking = nut bag add some other personality disorders and you have a Deluxe Mixed nuts.
The guy spends $5000 on platform shoes so he can attain the hieght of 5'5.
Sounds like he is really annoying his Chinese neighbors.
Which IMO leads me to believe one of his neighbors will take care of him if he becomes a safety problem.
Perhaps as long as he is drinking him self into la la land while playing the Asian version of Hugh Heffner, eating his daily lobster with his silver chopsticks and watching his beloved James Bond DVD's he will keep himself out of trouble. IOW Keep the baby in the play pen and he won't wander into unsafe territory.
It's Remy Martin.
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where's the old exploding Time-Life DVD when we need one?
What GNP?? Ever bought anything that was "Made in North Korea" ... That's what I thought. China supports the dog-eating drinking dictator's pathetic country. They love him being a thorn in the side of the U.S., but of course China dutifully protests the nuke/TNT/whatever test at the worthless U.N., appearing to be outraged.
But this might just blow up in China's face, pun intended -- If Japan ends up nuking up because of the pot-bellied dog-eating dictator, that will make China wery wery verwous ...
I distinctly heard Mary Kostakides (sp) on SBS news last night describing North Korea as THE WORLD'S TENTH LARGEST ECONOMY!
How does she keep a straight face reading that filthy marxist drivel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITBqRSMBWaM&mode=related&search=
Looks like there's an entire generation of children living in the streets.
SBS = Silly Bloody Socialists
The alternative is a horrible death without a trace of knowledge of the demise...
I thought I hear on Fox news it was Johnny Walker LOL!
Figuratively speaking.
You probably have but don't know it. China outsources lot's of manufacturing to labor camps along the Yalu staffed by North Koreans.
PROBABLY
I think if Chia Pet saw that movie he cry LOL!
Russia doesn't like a nuclear Japan either...
"Stark raving nutbag = "one of *history's* most deranged leaders""
But he would would fit in well with the DNC.
LOL Too true!
"chronic malnutrition had left 42 per cent of North Korean children physically stunted and in danger of intellectual impairment."
This is a terrible thought, but I wonder if this was at least partially deliberate, with the desired result of an unintelligent, unquestioning populace.
And giving them the excuse they need to "re-unify" North and South Korea as a new Chinese province.
It's widely believed that Jong Il's first major caper was the 1976 axe murder incident, in which two US MPs were fatally attacked by North Korean soldiers in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. When the US responded with a military buildup, followed by the removal of an offending tree (which was in violation of the Armistice Agreement), young Kim Jong Il got a severe reprimand from his daddy, the Great Leader, for the tremendous loss of face.
Sounds like he got his own back against his dad!
Hope you forgot your sarcasm tag.
NK has a pretty good income from arms dealing, drug dealing and counterfeiting.
One slightly used blue dress would beg to differ....
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