[ENCOSEARRALIA]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-1...nhap-says.html

Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader’ Dictator, Dead at 70, Yonhap Says

Kim Jong Il, the second-generation North Korean dictator who defied global condemnation to build nuclear weapons while his people starved, has died, Yonhap News reported. He was 70.

The news came in a radio broadcast at noon local time, Yonhap reported, citing North Korea’s official media. Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports.

The son of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder, Kim was a chain-smoking recluse who ruled for 17 years after coming to power in July 1994 and resisted opening up to the outside world in order to protect his regime. The potential succession of his little-known third son, Kim Jong Un, threatens to trigger a dangerous period for the Korean peninsula, where 1.7 million troops from the two Koreas and the U.S. square off every day.

“Kim Jong Il inherited a genius for playing the weak hand and by keeping the major powers nervous, continuing his father’s tradition of turning Korea’s history of subservience on its head,” said Michael Breen, the Seoul-based author of “Kim Jong Il: North Korea’s Dear Leader,” a biography. “We have entered an uncertain moment with North Korea.”

Lampooned by foreign cartoonists and filmmakers for his weight, his zippered jumpsuits, his aviator sunglasses and his bouffant hairdo, Kim cut a more serious figure in his rare dealings with world leaders outside the Communist bloc.
Words for Albright

“If there’s no confrontation, there’s no significance to weapons,” he told Madeleine Albright, then U.S. secretary of state, in a 2000 meeting in Pyongyang.

Those words took on greater significance in 2009 as Kim defied threats of United Nations sanctions to test a second nuclear device and a ballistic missile, technically capable of striking Alaska.

The following year North Korea lashed out militarily, prompting stern warnings from the U.S. and South Korea. An international investigation blamed Kim’s regime for the March 2010 sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan that killed 46 sailors.

Eight months later North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing two soldiers, two civilians and setting homes ablaze. The act followed reports by an American scientist that the country had made “stunning” advances to its uranium- enrichment program.

[Blelidupgerie]

Let's hope his successors are as cool

FTFY

[fil_nurser]

[spounnypneups]

That fatass looks nothing like me. Or my reaction.

[illiderob]

So who's taking over? The military or Donkey Kong-il?

[Gremlinn]

Does Chegitz still post here? We need somebody to legitimately mourn the guy in order to make this a fun thread

QFT

[FourEsters]

So when are Republicans going to give credit to Obama for taking out Kim Jong-Il? That's Bin Laden, Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-Il in the same year.

[Finkevannon]

He just now realized that the US has a black president and the shock was too much for him

[blogwado]

I think an old guy rumored to have pancreatic cancer, diabetes and heart disease sorta takes care of himself in that regard.

[FEti0TUI]

We shall remember Kim Jong-Il, as he was, in pictures. I present you, 'Kim Jong-Il Looking at Sausages (and other phallic objects)':







No, Dear Leader! That is not a sausage. It is a cucumber!



Dear Leader, that is not a sausage. It is corn!



And a bonus one:

Kim Jong-Il voting for the will of the people:

[iodillalm]

Mortality has its uses...

[movlabk]

Actually, I'll miss him a bit.
His daddy, Kim Il-sung the Great Helmsman, was a crazed dictator, but mostly just oppressed his own people. Jong-il, Dear Leader, was crazier, more militaristic, and starved his people more than his daddy. His son seems to be even shorter and crazier.
no-weapons.jpg

[mpegdvdclip]

Couldn't have happened to a better scum bag.

[acissombiapse]

Hopefully his follow up won't be as selfish and simply not caring enough about millions of people starving, just well, ngghh because.

[slowlexrese]

Just read they did a missile test. Dunno if it was meant more as a celebration or as some kind of threat. Or maybe it's just the NK way to mourn the loss of parents

edit: N not S

[Woziwfaq]

RIP

[MaigicyuNinia]

Indeed. Rip his corpse to bits with a pack of hungry dogs...evil little f*cker!

[peemovvie]

RIP

[HornyMolly]

Yeah, I agree with Imran. I kinda feel sorry for him, he was so ronery.

[pprropeciaaa]

It will be interesting to see how elaborate his funeral will be while the starving masses watch on.