Posted on 10/15/2006 5:45:16 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
I have in front of me a booklet, published in Pyongyang, titled Kim Jong Il: The Genuine People's Leader. It is a book of worship. The Great Leader, the author exults, "is a genius. I cannot find other expression for his intellect, talent and leadership than genius."
And this, as Kim worship goes, is pretty tame stuff. The writer, Tapani Keskinen, a former vice-chairman of the Socialist party of Finland, is a model of Nordic sobriety compared with the kind of jubilations North Koreans are subjected to on a daily basis. Not only are they meant to believe that Kim Jong-il is a leader of genius, but also a great soldier, a peerless film maker, movie critic, philosopher, scientist, miracle worker and holy man.
North Korean communism is more a religious cult than a political ideology. Like all modern Korean cults (think of the Moonies), it contains a mish-mash of animism, Confucianism and even Christian elements.
The Great Leader was, in fact, born in Russia during the war. But his official nativity story is set on Mount Paekdu, a sacred spot for all Koreans who believe their country was founded there more than 4000 years ago by a divine bear-man. When the Great Leader was born, a star shone brightly above Mount Paekdu, and his coming heralded the start of spring.
More in the Confucian mould, the Great Leader is also a brilliant and industrious scholar imbued with great wisdom, like his father, the late Great Leader, President Kim Il-sung.
Our Finnish friend tells us that the current Great Leader, "when still a child, ambled about the garden late in nights to hush chirring crickets lest they disturb the president lost in thought".
Now, try to imagine a country where every bookshop and library stocks nothing but this pseudo-religious drivel.
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This is an old article, but it's still relevant. It helps explain why this regeime didn't implode ages ago.
There was the same rigmarole around Saddam, how there were movies of him being shot at and bullets 'passing right through him' because of a magic stone he always wore around his neck.
The germ theory of illness is not widely accepted in Iraq. I can't imagine North Korea even being close to on par with that.
where is algore?
Still, Iraq was never geographically or psychically isolated like North Korea is, with its mountainous terrain and total absense of news from the outside.
So....it's not America who's responsible for Global Warming. The Korean nation was founded by two thirds of the evil Manbearpig triad.
Mind boggling. I've heard stories from people who lived in the Soviet Union in the 70s, 80s and after a trip to NK concluded they were living in paradise.
And since the little potbellied, mutant, bad hair day, dog eating chia pet is the only one with internet access in that hell hole, I offer this: eat sh1t and die "dear leader."
5.56mm
Koreans who believe their country was founded there more than 4000 years ago by a divine bear-manI knew it! Long before he invented the internet, the algore invented Korea!
even if he is right on this issue, rick ross is a felonious huckster now looking to make money on politics.
In the countries with NK embassies these embassies put out such garbage in the form of glossy magazines in the local languages. In the places like former USSR with their own history of personality cult, these made for great comical reading.
Waco? Well now, that's different. Elect Hillary, and she'll reappoint Janet Reno and they'll fix L'il Kim's little ass pronto!
Kim is no danger compared to Saddam and Al-Queda, He allowed bases in his country and funding and weapons. And was shipping terror arround the world -- he had the same nuclear goals and was working with biological stuff as well.
When have you read of the North Koreans setting up "Kim" temples around the world and training radical "Kimites" in the EU and around the world?
Kim Jong-il is a leader of genius, but also a great soldier, a peerless film maker, movie critic, philosopher, scientist, miracle worker and holy man.
Not to mention his being the worlds greatist golfer!!!
Just look it up, type in Kim Jong-il+golf on google
and see.
"Not only are they meant to believe that Kim Jong-il is a leader of genius, but also a great soldier, a peerless film maker, movie critic, philosopher, scientist, miracle worker and holy man."
They left out the part about Kim playing 18 holes of golf and scoring 18 holes-in-one. That's right, he even holed out his tee shot on the par-fives.
More like Lil' Kim likes Putt Putt with his Smut Smut. :)
One big difference is that we intercepted missile bound for Yemen from Kim and we suspect that he helped Pakistan get nuclear technology. Saddam didn't even pull that off. You are right though that he isn't the type would can expand himself beyond his own borders like Saddam had the ability to do via other islamofascist groups.
Hillary would have to go back and do what she and her bubba husband did before - appease, appease and appease. They did nothing before and they'll do nothing different now - except that they will claim that during the 8 years of Bush NK managed to wholly create, develop and test a nuclear military program which was successfully supressed during the magical Clinton years.
I am not aware of any articles of Kim sharing nuclear tech with Pakistan but I am aware of a slew of articles about Packstans's father of nuclear tech -- packs program predating kims and packistand sharing the technology with others -- all of this has been on dozens and dozens of articles posted on FR since 9-11. So I can't quite go with what you say.
Also Saddam had missles too, and would have had all his New" medium/long range ones deployed before kim did his funky test last year.
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