The glorious leader is dead. north korean news said he died while on a train due to heartattack. whether this is true or not, or even if he didn't die a couple days ago is not known.

succession will go to his son kim jong eun. asian countries are on alert to see what the outcome of this transition of power will be.

will this mean negotiations with aid organizations will begin again? will the prison camps (read nazi-esque concentration camps) be closed? we can only hope that this will be the start of a better future for a people who have known nothing but starvation and brainwashing.




reporting from pyongyang, your man in the know

Dmick.

First was the Great Leader (Kim Il Sun)
Then was the Dear Leader (Kim Jong Il, son of the Great Leader)
And now we have the Great Successor (son of the Dear Leader)

If these nepotistic leaches hadn't driven their country to the point of starvation it would be funny. As it is, the whole rotten edifice is pathetic and risible.

How come states based on atheist utopian principles end up being as bad as (or worse than) the worst religious totalitarian regimes?

i asked a friend in seoul how things are going and he said that everything is calm, and that everything is "business as usual". this disheartened me to no end.

ETW: the fact that a single family have remained in power for 60 years plus while causing the devolution of the human condition there is beyond mind boggling. a people so defeated that they will watch their own children die of starvation but are too scared of the army to say one word against the situation.

what can be done though? aid organizations cannot operate autonomously there, and most aid given is seized by the army and redistributed to the upper echelon.

Not much you can do. Sanctions don't affect the regime as they still have their luxury train and gourmet food. One could always declare war on them, but that could pull China in on their side and I don't fancy where that would lead.

Other than that, there's nothing that can be done except wait for the population to get so sick of it that they rise up and sort it out themselves. It is very very sad, isn't it.

hmmm. damned if we do and damned if we don't.

a military junta only recognizes power. unfortunately the population is so indoctrinated that it becomes the japanese homeland invasion quandry again.

If you check what is trending on Twitter, Kim Jong Il is not, but Team America is... sad and funny all at the same time.

HANS BRIX!

Ah well.
I don't see this going well.