Kim Jong-il is dead...

[Ekaje]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tieKL_5b2Io

Video of mourning crowds in North Korea.

It's really sad knowing that this is part brainwashing from birth into actually believing that he was a demigod/god, and part faking out of fear of what will happen to them if they don't make a show of how grief stricken they are.

Edited December 19, 2011 by Ekaje

[Neon]

[Soniman]

That was brilliant Neon

[Patticus]

It 'appaers,' does it? C'mon, just because you're taking the piss out of a dead man, that's no reason to just abandon your grammar!

I LOL'D.

[Neon]

It 'appaers,' does it? C'mon, just because you're taking the piss out of a dead man, that's no reason to just abandon your grammar!

Noticed that. I didn't make it.

[SuperStingray]

Yep, they did a missile test after they announced his death, shows how paranoid they are.

Poor sods they must of have been practising all year with an AK-47 pointed at their heads.

It's not even that- their propaganda is so thorough it even leaks into their lexicon, with terms like Dear Leader and Eternal President, and information is controlled to the point that these people don't know any better than to worship the regimes that have been repressing them for decades. Some citizens even think Kim Il-sung or Kim Jong-il created the world and control the weather for god's sake!

Edited December 20, 2011 by SuperStingray

[Badnik Zero]

You think maybe people are unhappy with this guy's appointment to succeed?

The real power in NK is the military. Besides running borders they arrange civic shit like farm aid. The military is like 30% of everybody. I wonder if their leader has to answer to anyone, like inner circle people.

Edited December 20, 2011 by Sufganiyah

[Stacy]

http://uk.news.yahoo...-065451895.html

Looks like Kim Jong-Il is to lie in state I wonder if he'll have a tacky mausoleum like his father?

Even when he is lying in state will he still feel ronery?

Edited December 20, 2011 by BW251211

[Axl.EXE]

Neon, that was, quite simply, brilliant.

[Stacy]

I am still laughing my arse off at this!

[Flyboy Fox]

Regarding his body lying in state, and the succession of his son.

[Noir]

So all those pretty flowers around his coffin

Their name is

Kimjongilia blossoms. Really.

[Neon]

North Korea's military to share power with Kim's heir:

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-n-korea-military-backs-kim-heir-share-065017037.html

[Axl.EXE]

Kimjongilia blossoms. Really.

[Jeffhog]

Kimjongilia blossoms

[Axl.EXE]

Such is life in a cult leader dictatorship.

[SuperStingray]

Yeah, and North Korea really knows how to put the "cult" in "cult of personality." The amount of empowerment given to this man's image is all but theocratic.

Edited December 21, 2011 by SuperStingray

[Tornado]

Yeah, and North Korea really knows how to put the "cult" in "cult of personality." The amount of empowerment given to this man's image is all but theocratic.

Not "all but." Jong Il was treated as if he was divine.

[Stacy]

Not "all but." Jong Il was treated as if he was divine.

Yeah aparrently he is so divine that he doesn't poop, come on even the Pope is considered to be divine and he poops!

[Badnik Zero]

The real power in NK is the military. Besides running borders they arrange civic shit like farm aid. The military is like 30% of everybody. I wonder if their leader has to answer to anyone, like inner circle people.

North Korea's military to share power with Kim's heir:

http://news.yahoo.co...-065017037.html

CALLED.

That.

SHIT.

[Patticus]

So North Korea is turning slowly into a military dictatorship more along the lines of Burma/Myanmar... Is Kim Jong-Un a puppet ruler then?

[Saint Nathan]

Anything would be better than whatever kind of medieval shit Il would pull.

At least if it's a military state, then they won't be brainwashed as badly by a single horrible dictator.

[Axl.EXE]

So North Korea is turning slowly into a military dictatorship more along the lines of Burma/Myanmar... Is Kim Jong-Un a puppet ruler then?

[Neon]

North Korea Will Be Ruled by a Manga-Reading Gamer:

http://kotaku.com/5869631/north-korea-will-be-ruled-by-a-manga+reading-gamer

[blackherox]

Anything would be better than whatever kind of medieval shit Il would pull.

At least if it's a military state, then they won't be brainwashed as badly by a single horrible dictator.

To be honest, Its more likely that the military have been pulling the strings for quite sometime now. So I doubt it would make much of a difference.

Edited December 22, 2011 by blackherox