North Korea: the military steps in?
All news emanating from North Korea is automatically assigned an asterisk and/or question mark, but I’ll report this for what it’s worth: sort-of-trusted Korean sources have told Reuters that “North Korea will shift to collective [military] rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week’s death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie.”
Sounds plausible to me. Kim Jong Il’s son Kim Jong Un is only in his late 20s. In contrast, the former took power when he was already in his mid-50s. Even grandpa Kim Il Sung was a very toughened 36 when he became premier and 60 when he became president.
[NOTE: Quickly skimming the now-deceased Kim Jong Il’s Wiki entry, I found some stuff that, if true, sheds a modicum of light on the making of a psychopathic dictator. These guys do not usually have Norman Rockwell childhoods, and Kim Jong Il was no exception:
[When Kim Jong Il was 3 or 4] the family moved into a former Japanese officer’s mansion in Pyongyang, with a garden and pool. Kim Jong-il’s brother, “Shura” Kim (the first Kim Pyong-il, but known by his Russian nickname), drowned there in 1948. Unconfirmed reports suggest that five-year-old Kim Jong-il might have caused the accident.
In 1949, his mother died in childbirth. Unconfirmed reports suggest that his mother might have been shot and left to bleed to death.
Ah, but Kim Jong Il was always a wonder child:
Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.]
his untested young son
Kim Jong-Il had passed a test? Good God.
Wow, man, a double rainbow!
rickl: once more, with feeling:
Note the grieving NORK military “collective” in the Reuters vid. They are like a flock of pigeons; they live a synchronized existence.
The reason why this world is ruled by the Devil is because domestic American politics bred demons always left unchecked, and that causes resource inefficiency which sustains and grows the power of foreign tyrants like Kim.
Neo, I think that vid is what happens when the Left gets drunk on the tragedies they cause which end up benefiting them. Engineered disasters, which conveniently upgrade the power and dominion of the Left. That crazy, drunk, elated joy they and Obama feel whenever they can put the boot down on someone inferior and weaker.
Having researched information on this extremely secretive, basically hermetically sealed Stalinist dictatorship for several decades, I believe that we can never really know–and verify- very much of what really goes on there.
Wolla Dalbo – that’s about what a friend of mine, who worked in military intelligence (no, really – there are quite bright and intelligent people working there!) told me, during the year that I spent at Yongsan AIG. We just wouldn’t know. Take what we did know, consult the magic 8-ball, and prepare for the worst.
Although the English-fluent Koreans that I did know, through part-time working at KBS (Korea Broadcasting System) did agree that very likely the average NORK invading army (assuming they got through the DMZ, which would have been a dicey proposition anyway since they haven’t fought a balls-to-the-wall war since 1953) wouldn’t have been made it past the first well-stocked SORK grocery store. YMMV. Since the NORKS had Seoul in range of their high-powered artillery, no one wanted much to find out exactly how good they might be at 1953-era warfare.
Ignore the biggest clues as to organization and who controls what and the anomaly of a Korean known more by his Russian knickname. Once again the same place comes up over and over and key now is the changes that fit what comes next. And note how many come complete w their own ambiguos excuse for what is to happen.
Take his age. A perfect excuse for rash behavior.
But also a plus when one thinks that it’s better to change leaders before conflict rather than during
what about iran? Same double edge
what about potus?
How would he handle real WWII kind of conflict w china in thewings? Or Russia?
If u ghink his understanding an action in Iraq is a sign that’s kids play compared to the forgotten war vol ii