9/13/2008

Dear Leader. By Uncle Monty.

Dear Leader.
By Uncle Monty.
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Western news reports state that “North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il has collapsed and is ill.” He may also have
had a vey recent stroke at age 66.
~~~
He didn’t show his expected face Tuesday at Pyongyang’s
demonstrative 60th Anniversary of the founding of the
Stalinist state by his late father president Kim Il-sung,
who died in 1994. Dubbed “Dear Leader,” and seen as a
demigod by his brainwashed and repressed people, Kim
Jong-il has ruled North Korea for the past 14 years.
He’s now a much reclusive character much like the
country he rules. Although at one time he was seen as a
playboy in his youth. Those days have long gone and Kim
could well die at anytime due to a variety of illnesses he
allegedly has, but to which the North always denies.
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The Parade for North Korea's 60th Year Founding.
My intense interest in North Korea stems from my own visit
there over a year ago or so and to now see news photographs
of the same parade ground that I stood at and photographed
myself at where 100,000 marching military cadre paraded
Tuesday was for me still like being there … The goose-step
female soldiers in Reuters newsphotos of the parade
is at the exact same spot I walked along with my two
armed bodyguards and driver while in the North Korean
capital of Pyongyang to attend the 95th Birthday
Anniversary of Kim’s father.
~~~
I also saw the glass entombed body of his father
president Kim Il-sung at the huge Memorial Palace with
three miles of marble corridors. No other country for me, both
before or since, can compare to visiting inside North Korea.
I shall remember it for the rest of my life. I am, after all,
one of only a few Westerners ever to spend sometime
inside the world’s last Stalinist state. It was mind-boggling
and surreal at times, but well worth travelling there
via China's captial of Beijing like I did.
~~~
North Korea's Peoples Army at 60th Year Do ...
As the huge military parade of 100.000 foot soldiers
got under way, Western and South Korean observers
declared they saw no new weaponry on parade like
state-of-the-arts missles and nuclear-ready jet fighters.
Relief, indeed. Although the story goes that it seeks to
develop “longer-range and more accurate ICBMs.”
~~~
But something even more ominus came to light on the
same day of the 60th anniversary of North Korea and
that was the revelation and exposure of the hitherto
secret weapons site hidden on the West coast of the
Stalinist state and not far from where I myself was
taken to visit the West Sea coast. The hidden site was
discovered by American satellite ground photo-imagery.
I found myself the website that had posted the unclassified
imagery of the North Korean weapons site (shown below)
that is believed to be designed to achieve even longer range
and more accurate ICBMs that could technically hit
the outer parameters of the United States ...
~~~
The allegedly secret weapons site has been around for at
least the past 8 years, according to Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr.,
senior analyst with Jane's Information Group that Reuters
quoted in its news report of the shocking revelation. Such
will send deep shivers down the spines of South Korea,
and the United States and Japan that North Korea as
always seen as its mortal and deadly enemies.
~~~
Photo-Imagery of North's Secret ICBM site.
North Korea has been in the process of de-nuclearization
over the past two years or so, but recent news reports state
the country is now in a kind of re-nuclearization after the U.S.
failed to remove the country from America's "Terror List."
Remember this was one of three countries that the
vile George Bush declared was the “Axis of Evil” -
Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
It’s the same George Bush who is now up in arms over
Russia’s recent invasion of Georgia, but it seems Bush
has conveniently forgotten his own brutal and unilateral
invasion of weak and poor Iraq with the aid and support
of his then Atlantic 'poddle' Anthony Blair, the hideous
warmonger and war criminal of Britain according to some.
So who are Bush and Dick Cheney, his vice-president,
to complain about what resurgent Russia has done? And,
who are they to condemn North Korea when they, Bush
and Cheney, are the same evil architects that have kill-
ed thousands of innocent men, women and children thru
their illegal and criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq?
~~~
North Korea's "Dear Leader" with some of his inner circle.
But after all that has been said and done about the
absence of Kim at the Pyongyang military parade and
its national celebration of the country's founding, the big
question now is who will replace the "Dear Leader" once
he steps down and/or is incapacitated or dies from his
recurring illnesses? Who then will succeed Kim Jong Il?
~~~
The Sunday Times Far East correspondent
Michael Sheridan has just today written a great and
perceptive piece on that very important and scary
question for the West and for Asia as a whole on
who and what may comes after Kim Jong Il?
~~~
I wouldn't even attempt to critique Michael's
article for he is cogent and insightful on the
situation surrounding the "Dear Leader" and the
motley characters among the present members
of the powerful Kim Clan and inner circle that
controls North Korea thesedays. In any event,
read Michael Sheridan's online news piece, it's
a striking and fascinating story, I think ...
~~~
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Looking grim and starry-eyed with their "Dear Leader."

Truly, Uncle Monty. + Holy Cross Day, 2oo8.

:: UPDATE :: "Seoul: North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong Il, remained out of sight Monday, missing another key chance, on Korea's Thanksgiving holiday, to make an appearance that could have put to rest speculation about his health. Kim suffered a stroke Aug. 14 and underwent surgery performed with the help of five doctors sent from China at North Korea's request, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported from Beijing, citing unidentified Chinese officials. North Korea denies Kim, 66, is ill." International Herald Tribune, Paris, Sept 16th, 2oo8.

:: Next Stories of Mine :: My next stories coming soon: "So He Wants 'All-Black' Schools in UK." And, "Mr. and Mrs. America" among others. Also an update about the public lynching of Mark Saunders, 32, by the police killing of him at the bloody hands and confrontation of Scotland Yard's elite firearms cops earlier this year at his £2 million home at London's swanky Chelsea. I already feel vindicated by what I wrote earlier back in May, just days after his savage slaughter, with today's latest expose now by The Independent -of what those brutal and callous cops did to him ... The other Met police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes now looks like a profoundly foolish error compared to what happened to the young and successful British barrister Mark Saunders. Those same copz should already and really be behind bars not walking and driving around the streets of London to freely slaughter their next hapless victim with their government-issued firearms. So more later. Your's, Uncle Monty. +18th Sunday after Trinity, 2oo8.

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