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2004-11-18 China-Japan-Koreas
North Korean Media Drop `Dear Leader' Title, Press Monitor Says
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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-18 5:26:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 LOL!

Oh no! Call State! Find out what this means!
Posted by .com 2004-11-18 5:34:20 AM||   2004-11-18 5:34:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Following from yesterday's report that Kim was depressed about Bush winning and Kerry losing. Would'nt it drive the Left apeshit if the Nork military decided to whack Kim because Bush got re-elected. HE HE HE
Posted by phil_b 2004-11-18 8:07:58 AM||   2004-11-18 8:07:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 He's 64. Maybe he's retiring soon. The prospect of being up against Bush until he's 68 or 69 may just have him thinking. And maybe he's also thinking back a few months to that mysterious railyard blast that he alledgedly just missed by hours.
Posted by Tom 2004-11-18 8:14:36 AM||   2004-11-18 8:14:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 He must have a son who's chomping at the bit to take over. Britain has the same problem but Chuck seems like a good son and who could pop their mother. But Kimmie? I'd keep my eyes on the kids if I were you, Dear Leader.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-18 8:17:36 AM||   2004-11-18 8:17:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Um, has anybody seen him in public recently? Totalitarian cult-of-personality types like Kim Jong Il don't just "lose grip" on their states - they either die like Kim's father, get overthrown by an invasion by foreigners, like Saddam or Pol Pot, or get eaten by the tiger, like Ceausescu.
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-11-18 8:32:59 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-11-18 8:32:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 this de culting may simply be a device for flushing his enemies into the open
Posted by mhw 2004-11-18 9:41:17 AM||   2004-11-18 9:41:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hint: watch if they photoshop out his poofy hair (source all his power - like Samson)
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-18 10:26:04 AM||   2004-11-18 10:26:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting. I just looked over the last few weeks of Nork news and they're right. He is called by his official titles or just "leader". And Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, seems to be meeting with and sending messages to other leaders.
Posted by Steve  2004-11-18 11:09:06 AM||   2004-11-18 11:09:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

Maybe Kimmie is so depressed over the death of his concubine that he is a blubbering idiot now and cannot govern. The govt is trying to make a transition.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2004-11-18 11:20:16 AM||   2004-11-18 11:20:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Perhaps "Team America" convinced a few of the more powerful NorK insiders the KJI was an object of international ridicule that no one took seriously. A view reinforced by the fact that no one, especially President Bush, pays any attention to the posturing, foaming-at-the-mouth, diatribes emanating from Pyongyang anymore. It's hard to be an all powerful godlike dictator when people laugh at your picture. Score one for the Bush policy of indifference to these buffoons.
Posted by RWV 2004-11-18 11:27:13 AM||   2004-11-18 11:27:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I remember something my Soviet History professor said: every tyrrany has a succession problem. The USSR never quite solved its succession problem, and that's a large part of why it's not there anymore. North Korea opted for primogeniture when the Great Leader expired, which solved the problem for that iteration, but I understand the children of the Head of State Formerly Known as the Dear Leader have not been prepared to assume the mantle. Wouldn't shock me if the the NorK regime collapses because it can't figure out who (or what) comes next.
Posted by Mike  2004-11-18 12:41:46 PM||   2004-11-18 12:41:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe there's not as much money flowing in as there used to?

We could have severely cut into their weapons and drug trade.
Posted by anonymous2u 2004-11-18 1:27:36 PM||   2004-11-18 1:27:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Wut about the overpowering, all-world "Spirit of Juche"?
Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-11-18 1:50:37 PM||   2004-11-18 1:50:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Alaska Paul (comment #9): Maybe Kimmie is so depressed over the death of his concubine that he is a blubbering idiot now and cannot govern

Uh, he was like that BEFORE his girl friend died.
Posted by Justrand 2004-11-18 3:50:09 PM||   2004-11-18 3:50:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Wut about the overpowering, all-world "Spirit of Juche"?

Ironically, it may have led to the demotion of Kim. It's possible that Kim was measured against the 'Spirit of Juche', found wanting, and given figurehead status.
Posted by Pappy 2004-11-18 7:28:51 PM||   2004-11-18 7:28:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Kim Jong Il Song

From Paek-du mountains, 1000km long beautiful realm
All look up to the General and cheer him.
He is the people's leader to inherit the great work of the Sun.
Long live, long live, General Kim Jeong-Il !

Millions of flowers on the earth tell us his love.
Blue waves of the ocean sing of his work.
He is the creator of happiness to grow the garden of Ju-che.
Long live, long live, General Kim Jeong-Il !

He protects socialism with his courage like steel.
He makes our country famous in the world.
He is the defender of justice with a flag of autonomy.
Long live, long live, General Kim Jeong-Il !

Ooom-pa Ooom-pa Ooom-pa Ooom-pa Ooom-pa
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Posted by BigEd 2004-11-18 11:05:20 PM||   2004-11-18 11:05:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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