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In reply to the discussion: North Korea says supreme leader Kim Jong Il has died, AP reports [View all]Vogon_Glory
(10,304 posts)43. Too True
Too true, despite their roles in foisting another member of a political dynasty on us in 2000.
No doubt the Shammity lad will try to do his vaccuous bit, too.
At the risk of offending DU's hard-core socialists, I wish that the North Korean regime would quietly implode and that part of the Korean peninsula would start re-developing. Then we could wish Limblot, Bill-Oh, the Shammity lad, and the Savage Weiner prolonged and extended vacations in some backwater hotel (and one lacking internet or reliable phone service!) north of the 38th parallel so they could enjoy the full glory of a Korean winter.
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Let me put it this way - even hard core Stalinists think the Kim family is crazy
Taverner
Dec 2011
#91
vibes to all the people of the Korean Peninsula and that the North now has an orderly transition to
applegrove
Dec 2011
#9
Here is to hoping this will signal the end to the oppression of the North Korean people
liberal N proud
Dec 2011
#14
If the military took over would it be any worse for N Koreans than it is now? Might the
snagglepuss
Dec 2011
#25
Wow - what's that bottom photo? Looks like he was tipping over or something. Odd shot.
gateley
Dec 2011
#57
Ding dong the wicked witch of the north is dead. But the son also rises in the northern wastes.
Kablooie
Dec 2011
#37
he was a piece of shit, all my hopes to the people of North Korea for a better life
JI7
Dec 2011
#45
I'm holding my breath to see what happens next. He may have been a terrible dictator BUT
Justice wanted
Dec 2011
#48
I heard his son went to school in the West and attained a PHD in Looking at Things.
harun
Dec 2011
#87
We could give them Prince Philip - decades of experience in Looking At Things
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2011
#115
The people crying in North Korea aren't sad for his loss. They think thinngs are going to get worse
craigmatic
Dec 2011
#111