No "Dear Leader" Anymore!
By Uncle Monty.
Images From The Web.
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~ Funeral Update ~
North Koreans line streets for Kim Jong Il's funeral.
Dec. 28, 2011.
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Having stood right there (as shown above) as one of the few
Western visitors to North Korea, I still feel rather eerie after
seeing the body of his father before the body of the North
Korean "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il now also lying in state
at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang. A visit
to the Memorial Palace, with its three miles of marble
corridors and moveable floors, is an obligatory one for
any foreign visitor, including me, to North Korea's
twilight city of Pyongyang.
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North Koreans Mourning The Death Of Their "Dear Leader"
Kim Jong-il. Can You Imagine The British People Mourning
The Death Of Our Own Deceitful "Dear Leader" Tony Blair
And His Ilk At Such A Public Outpouring?
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Never in my life did I find such a city like Pyongyang so strange
and so isolated from the world beyond its borders. The rise
of Jong-il's 28 or 29 year old son Kim Jong-un as the New
North Korean ruler raises more questions than answers.
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With 12 days of national mourning, anything could be going
on behind the scenes of the highly secretive Stalinist state.
All indications right now are that the young Kim Jong-un is
backed by the all-powerful state news media - KCNA -
and its communistic propaganda machine in anointing him
as the "Great Successor" to his "Dear Leader" father Kim
Jong-il and his dictator grandfather Kim Il Sung, who
founded DPRK - Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
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Kim Jong-un, The North Korean "Great Successor"
At Age 28 or 29 At Pyongyang's Kumsusan Memorial
Palace to pay his last respects to his dead father.
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I hope for better things for the people, but I don't see any
radical improvement there unless Jong-un surprises everybody
by reducing the oppression and tryanny of his own people.
Educated in Europe for a few short years, Kim Jong-un is
fascinated with IT and maybe abit of a closet Westerner in his
own way. Such may then bring some kind of enlightenment to
North Korea at some point during his rule although that would
seem to me to be a very distant thing at the moment.
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All things must come to end and so will the Kim Dynasty
of North Korea sooner or later. Hopefully sooner rather
than later. But right now, there doesn't seem to be anybody
or anything that will change the equation for the better.
Indeed the opposite could happen if Kim Jong-un decides
to do something crazy like set off a nuclear bomb or in-
stigate a conventional military attack against South Korea
or Japan. North Koreans see both of those nations as im-
placable enemies going back more than 65 to 70 years.
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Grand Memorial Wreath To The Late "Dear
Leader" at Bejing's Embassy of North Korea.
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Whether the powerful North Korea military, with its more
than 1,000,000,000 standing army, will truly back Kim
Jong-un remains to be seen although thus far they have
stated they will. The North Korean mindset is totally
different to that of most Westerners and Asians
outside the last Stalinist State on earth. After Kim Jong-il's
formal state funeral on December 28th - in which presumably
his body will not be buried be saved for future display and
homage at the Memorial Palace - the young Kim Jong-un
will probably be surrounded and guided by his own Kim
relatives in his tentative steps to rule some 24 million
improvished and brutalised North Koreans. His own
father presided over mass starvation of some 2 million
people and the torture and imprisonment of those
who dared to defy the "Dear Leader."
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Late "Dear Leader" Rests in glass sarcophagus like is his
own father Kim Il Sung at the same Memorial Palace at
North Korea's capital of Pyongyang.
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No new leader can change that mindset of the people or nation
overnight, even if he wants to. Will North Korea be better off with
Kim Jong-un after the deaths of his dictator father and earlier his
grandfather? Perhaps!! Be we don't know at this very early stage
of post-"Dear Leader" and at the rise of the new "Great Successor."
At his young age of under 30, Kim Jong-un could well be
around for another 40 to 50 years to rule inside North Korea.
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At home, I've had a number of flashbacks of my North Korea
stay as I've read with intense interest the unfolding drama now
taking place inside Pyongyang. I wish, too, I was there to witness
first hand the dramatic drama of the Korean People at what
could be the most dangerous time for the foes aganist the
last Stalinist State. Things there are quite uncertain as the
transition period takes hold since Kim Jong-il's death
by an heart attack last Saturday while he was travelling
on a train, so we are told. What, however, is absolutely
certain is that there is no "Dear Leader" anymore!!
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Truly, Uncle Monty.
+The of Prince of Peace, 2011.
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~ Story Update ~
South Korean intelligence disputes circumstances of Kim Jong-il's
death. MPs in Seoul told that North Korean leader did not travel
by train the day he died as Kim Jong-un consolidates power.
By Tania Branigan at Beijing.
Dec. 22nd, 2011.
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North Korea’s Tears: A Blend of Cult, Culture and Coercion.
By Choe Sang-Hun & Norimitsu Onishi.
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A turning point in North Korea?
Kim Jong-il's death may begin a fresh period of confrontation with
Seoul, if Pyongyang's new leader attempts to demonstrate his authority.
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