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Title: Korea's Future
Post by: Senn Typhos on 19 Dec 2011, 01:51

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kim-jong-il-20111219,0,596767.story

It begins today, but who knows what direction the new leader will take.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Mithfindel on 19 Dec 2011, 02:08

Or how long he lives. I understand that there are rumours the Great Successor has several first-world problems with his health. We'll see what the military does, and whether the new leader is a leader or a marionette for the real generals. (At least this wasn't the son that was trying to secretly run away to visit Disneyland in Tokio?)

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Esna Pitoojee on 19 Dec 2011, 02:09

In most other dictatorships, I'd assume military coup with the generals backing whatever one of Jong Il's offspring they think they can control most, followed by prolonged infighting eventually breaking into civil war, with various generals jockeying for the top positions.

Then again, this is North Korea. Reverance for the leader is literally a national religion of sorts. So who knows.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Graelyn on 19 Dec 2011, 02:36

I'm surprised he's still alive, tbh.

He's a fat, weak twit by all accounts.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: lallara zhuul on 19 Dec 2011, 03:06

As long as there is nukes involved, everybody wins.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Ken on 19 Dec 2011, 04:30

Let the celebrations begin! (http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU)

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Milo Caman on 19 Dec 2011, 04:45

Quote from: Ken on 19 Dec 2011, 04:30

Let the celebrations begin! (http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU)

There are no words.  :D

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Senn Typhos on 19 Dec 2011, 06:31

Quote from: Ken on 19 Dec 2011, 04:30

Let the celebrations begin! (http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU)

B'aaahahaha XD

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Gottii on 19 Dec 2011, 09:40

Quote from: Ken on 19 Dec 2011, 04:30

Let the celebrations begin! (http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU)

Just awesome.   

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Nmaro Makari on 19 Dec 2011, 10:15

The way I see it theres no real way to tell what happens next. It all depends what happens on a personal level between the Kim Il-Sung and his people in government.

I think we can rule out a popular uprising in the near future though.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Bacchanalian on 19 Dec 2011, 10:26

Hennessy stock is going to hit rock bottom.

http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/nkorea.jpg

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Senn Typhos on 19 Dec 2011, 10:29

It's like, funny and horrific at the same time.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: BloodBird on 19 Dec 2011, 11:17

Quote from: Ken on 19 Dec 2011, 04:30

Let the celebrations begin! (http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU)

Vid's funny, but the sad part is, should things go really really bad now, alot of those parading people will find themselves dead or suffering more in the near future, courtesy of North Korea's many enemies and/or internal power-issues. I feel sorry for them, to be honest.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Seriphyn on 19 Dec 2011, 20:40

I wish China wouldn't treat NK as a tool to keep the US at bay. They've got some real power to straighten out that damned country. All that orchestrated griefing nonsense...wish the Western media were more clear that it's fake.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Kohiko Sun on 20 Dec 2011, 00:58

That may be because it's not clear how much is fake. The only religion allowed there is the one he created that elevates members of that family to living gods. No outside influence is allowed to the common person, so they don't know it's a lie, and those who refuse to believe disappear. People who do not keep shrines to him and his father in their homes disappear. They just lost their god and national father figure.

The people who aren't prisoners in death camps are prisoners of thought. They believe.

Title: Re: Korea's Future
Post by: Mithfindel on 20 Dec 2011, 12:10

While I generally think that dead people should let be, well:

http://kimjongildroppingthebass.tumblr.com/ (http://kimjongildroppingthebass.tumblr.com/)