N Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693

[DVTimes]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced.

Mr Kim, who has led the communist nation since the death of his father in 1994, died on a train while visiting an area outside the capital, the announcement said.

He suffered a stroke in 2008 and was absent from public view for months.

His designated successor is believed to be his third son, Kim Jong-un, who is thought to be in his late 20s.

North Korea's state-run news agency, KCNA, urged people to unite behind the younger Kim.

"All party members, military men and the public should faithfully follow the leadership of comrade Kim Jong-un and protect and further strengthen the unified front of the party, military and the public," the news agency said.

A funeral for Kim Jong-il will be held in Pyongyang on 28 December and Kim Jong-un will head the funeral committee, KCNA said.

The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says Mr Kim's death will cause huge shock waves across North Korea, an impoverished, nuclear-armed nation with few allies.

The announcement came in an emotional statement read out on national television.

The announcer, wearing black, said he had died of physical and mental over-work. A later report from KCNA said Mr Kim had had a heart attack.

South Korea's military has been put on alert following the announcement and its National Security Council is convening for an emergency meeting, Yonhap news agency reports.

Asian stock markets fell after the news was announced.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693

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So it looks like they opted for the son hat is not a big fan of disney world in the usa to take over.

[BFT3K]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's teenage grandson has been seen at a concert by one of South Korea's biggest pop stars, Rain, in Macau. Reclusive North Korea has been cracking down on South Korea's pop culture and other outside influences for years. But South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper - citing an unknown South Korean living in Macau - said the 14-year-old watched the concert there on June 27 with five South Korean friends who attend middle schools in Hong Kong and the city. The newspaper said Kim Jong Nam - the boy's father and the North Korean leader's eldest son bought the tickets worth about US$1,400 and allowed his son to invite his friends. North Korea's state-run media frequently warns that imperialists are trying to poison the country's ideals via pop culture. Kim Jong Nam had been the favorite to succeed his father but reportedly fell out of favour after being caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport in 2001 to visit Tokyo Disneyland. His younger brother Kim Jong Un has reportedly been named as the North Korean leader's successor.

http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/eng...0718&56&597742

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Originally Posted by BFT3K

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk

the way the uk is going bust, that country may start to look a good place to live.

[DVTimes]

Facebook accounts believed to belong to the North Korean leader's grandson have caused a stir in the South.

South Korean media discovered accounts thought to belong to Kim Han-sol, the 16-year-old son of Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-il's eldest son, on Saturday.

According to reports, the posts revealed a teenager who said he was in favour of democracy and that his favourite film was "Love Actually".

Photos showed Kim Han-sol with bleached blonde hair and dressed stylishly.

He is now believed to have blocked public access to his social networking accounts after being bombarded with South Korean media attention, the Korea Herald reported.

Romantic?

Kim Han-sol's sense of fashion has provoked considerable interest in the South Korean media, with Facebook photos showing him wearing rimmed glasses, earrings and a pendant in the shape of a cross.

A photo taken with a young woman has attracted interest because Mr Kim captioned it with the comment: "I'm going to miss you so much", a South Korean paper reported.

The unidentified girl replied: "I love you too, yeobo." ''Yeobo'' is a term of endearment that husbands and wives in Korea use to address each other, the paper explained.

And in one post, the teenager is said to have asked fellow students if they preferred democracy or communism - and said he preferred democracy.

Kim Han-sol is believed to live with his father, Kim Jong-nam, in China and also in the former Portuguese territory of Macau.

On Friday, the United World College in Bosnia said that he would be enrolling there as a student.

The South Korean press also says it has discovered accounts belonging to Kim Jong-nam, who was passed over by his father as successor to the North Korean leadership.

His page contained posts insulting his half-brother, Kim Jong-un, his father's chosen successor.

The South Korean paper says Kim Jong-nam was posting under the name "Kim Chol", a pseudonym he uses for hotel reservations when travelling to Singapore and Hong Kong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15165334

[fris]

you didnt post a ref code to a north korean affiliate program!

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[oscer]

This could be very good or Very bad ... We will see how the new Regime is

[DVTimes]

It will be interesting if they follow china and and develop a chinease style economy and system.

[DVTimes]

Originally Posted by oscer

This could be very good or Very bad ... We will see how the new Regime is

It will be interesting.

They have clearly not opted for the 'western' son who likes disnyworld. it sounds like the son visits china and probably inspired by china.

mabe it will bew more militery run now and the selected son is simply a spoksman.

you never know, the country may in a few years be much different. lets face it, 20 years ago you could never imagine china was going to be as free as it is today and have a more capalist system than even the usa.

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[Barry-xlovecam]

Tribute to the Great
Fallen Leader



See ya sukka!

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Just What the World Needs - An Inexperienced 3rd Generation Dictator?

Kim Jong-un, the youngest and least-known son of Kim Jong-il, appears to be in line to become the next leader of North Korea after his father?s death, which was announced on Dec. 19, 2011.

In February 2011, Kim Jong-un had smoothly acceded to a senior position on the National Defense Commission, the country?s most powerful body, according to a report by a leading newspaper in Seoul. The move definitively elevated him as second only to his father.

Kim Jong-un, who is believed to be 28 or 29, had appeared publicly for the first time at a meeting of the ruling Workers? Party in September 2010. At that time, he was given the rank of four-star general and received two significant political posts ? membership on the Central Committee of the party and a vice chairmanship of the party?s Central Military Committee, which is also overseen by his father.

A year on, it appears increasingly clear that the regime was helping Kim Jong-un inherit a personality cult of his own. On state TV, he is packaged to look like his grandfather, Kim Il-Sung: Mao suit, swept-back hair and the gravitas North Koreans associate with the ?Great Leader,? who died in 1994. Scenes on state-run television showing octogenarian party secretaries bowing to a man Kim Jong-Un before accepting the smiling young man?s handshake or kowtowing to his instructions have become a staple of North Korea?s propagandist media.

Less clear is whether the intimidatation of generals and party elders had been accomplished by Kim Jong-un or his father. Key to the political dynamics surrounding the succession in Pyongyang, analysts say, is whether Kim Jong-il lived long enough to provide his son with whatever assistance he may need to settle into power.

Either way, the scenes are a stark contrast to those of a year before, when the transition ? taking place in the panicked atmosphere of Kim Jong-il?s failing health ? seemed that it could pose challenges to the regime?s internal cohesion.

Kim Jong-il had fought for his inheritance as much as it was bestowed upon him by his father. He terrorized the older elite and won their grudging respect in a process of consolidating absolute power that lasted decades. By comparison, Kim Jong-un resembled more of an inexperienced, even clueless, dauphin thrust onto a fast track whipped together after his father suffered a stroke in 2008.

Background

When his father began to push Kim Jong-un forward, there was only picture of him available outside North Korea. In that picture, he is 11 years old.

?When Prince Jong-un shook hands with me, he fixed me with a vicious look,? Kim Jong-il?s former Japanese sushi chef wrote in a 2003 memoir describing his first encounter with the boy, then 7, dressed in a military uniform and known as a ?prince? among his father?s aides. ?I still cannot forget the look in his eyes. It seemed to say, ?This is a despicable Japanese.? "

The chef, who goes by the pen name Kenji Fujimoto, said in an interview that as a teenager, Kim Jong-un was already his father?s favorite and ?looked just like him.?

The lone photo and Mr. Fujimoto?s memories form part of the few precious strands of information analysts and intelligence officials in South Korea and Washington rely on as they struggle to put together a dossier on Kim Jong-un. They describe Kim Jong-un as a young man of medium height, overweight and prone to high blood pressure and suffering from diabetes, and with character traits similar to his father?s.

Kim Jong-il had at least five children with three women. Sung Hae-rim, a movie star, gave birth to Kim Jong-nam. She became estranged from Kim Jong-il after he married Kim Young-sook, who gave birth to one daughter (some say two) but no son.

Then Mr. Kim fell for Ko Young-hee, the prima donna of North Korea?s premier opera, who was born in Japan and emigrated to the North in the 1960s. She had two sons ? Kim Jong-chol and Kim Jong-un ? and a daughter, Kim Yeo-jong. Until Ms. Ko died of breast cancer in 2004, she was Mr. Kim?s de facto first lady and a fierce campaigner for her sons.

With no mother to promote him to his father, Kim Jong-nam scuttled what remote chance he had of succession when he was caught and deported while sneaking into Japan on a fake passport in 2001. He was headed for Tokyo Disneyland.

The middle son, Kim Jong-chol, attended the International School of Berne in Switzerland in the 1990s under the pseudonym Pak Chol, according to analysts and journalists in Seoul, as well as Mr. Fujimoto ? though other analysts dispute these accounts. He was said to be a fan of Michael Jordan, Eric Clapton and Keanu Reeves. Mr. Fujimoto wrote that Ms. Ko often took her sons on trips to Europe and Tokyo Disneyland, and that Kim Jong-un learned English.

Analysts are divided over whether Kim Jong-un also attended the school in Switzerland. They say he was enrolled from 2002 to 2007 in the Kim Il-sung Military University, a leading officer-training school in Pyongyang, the capital, but was taught at home.

Mr. Fujimoto said in an interview that Kim Jong-il dismissed his second son, Kim Jong-chol, as ?girlish? but openly complimented Kim Jong-un, saying, ?That boy is like me.?

This could get strange...or not.

ADG

[billywatson]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Wonder if he loves American porn as much as his old man did?

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by billywatson

Wonder if he loves American porn as much as his old man did?

ADG

[facialfreak]

Anderson Cooper ran a piece on WHO IS KIM JONG UN last year when his father declared him as his successor, and to be honest I think the kid is a war-mongering asshole with a chip on his shoulder ....

Yes, things are about to get really interesting ..........

[DaddyHalbucks]

Goodbye, Dear Leader.