What is going on in North Korea?

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 22, 2004, 11:58 am

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/1 ... index.html

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea is denying reports that portraits of leader Kim Jong Il have been removed from public places, calling the accounts a U.S. plot to overthrow his government, China's main state news agency reported Friday.

"It didn't happen before, and will never happen," the Xinhua News Agency quoted North Korean Foreign Ministry official Ri Gyong Son as saying in the North's capital, Pyongyang.

Ri called the reports "an intrigue that the United States and its attaching countries want to overthrow" the North's government, according to Xinhua. It didn't say when he made the comments.

Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, citing unidentified diplomats, reported this week that portraits of Kim were being removed from buildings in the secretive North.

Lots and lots of portraits of Kim come down and less is heard of him every day. Many countries (especially china) are suspecting a regime change. Since NK keeps a very strict informational border on its country is hard to do much more than speculate. Thoughts?

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » November 22, 2004, 12:06 pm

With that hair he may have retired and moved into tele-evangalism.

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » November 22, 2004, 12:15 pm

All I know is, Team America will be less funny if he is "overthrown" or whatever...

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » November 22, 2004, 2:37 pm

Kluden wrote:All I know is, Team America will be less funny if he is "overthrown" or whatever...

No it won't be?

That's like saying making fun of Hitler ( or Saddam now, in reference to say... South Park ) isn't funny because he's not alive and obviously not the dictator of Germany anymore.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » November 22, 2004, 3:19 pm

I'm so ronery, so ronery, sadry compretery arone.
no one, just the onry, sitting on my rittle throne.

poor rittle meeeee

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » November 22, 2004, 3:35 pm

See, he won't be ronery anymore...the song won't have so much meaning

It's satire. I don't actually appreciate that person in any way shape or form...but the blatent mockery of a person in power is so much better than the mockery of someone who is no longer in that position, but the mockery is of them in that position.

ie. the suddam thing in the South Park movie isn't that funny anymore to me.

Karae · Post by **Karae** » November 22, 2004, 7:01 pm

I bet Internet Free Asia presents a lot more problems for autocratic "communist" countries than Radio Free Europe did. Much more difficult to control information these days.

Moonwynd · Post by **Moonwynd** » November 22, 2004, 8:07 pm

I heard a reporter on NPR last night saying that the North Koreans are denying that he died...but that one of his mistresses died. Who knows though...maybe if he dies things can change and his people will not have to starve any longer.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » November 22, 2004, 8:19 pm

Moonwynd wrote:I heard a reporter on NPR last night saying that the North Koreans are denying that he died...but that one of his mistresses died. Who knows though...maybe if he dies things can change and his people will not have to starve any longer.

Yeah! And maybe we could all unite hands across the globe and sing folk songs while jellybeans and daffodils flew out of our asses.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » November 22, 2004, 8:28 pm

If Kim Jong Il did die, I eagerly await the heroic things his successor will do. Kim managed some amazing feats while in office according to the Korean press.

Raistin · Post by **Raistin** » November 22, 2004, 9:04 pm

Yea sorta on par with G Bush. They are 2 amazing dictators who have done great things for their countries.

Markulas · Post by **Markulas** » November 22, 2004, 9:36 pm

Kim Jong Il has done a fantastic job according to these photos.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... k-dark.htm

Post by **Xouqoa** » November 23, 2004, 12:26 am

durka durka?

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » November 23, 2004, 1:28 am

Markulas wrote:Kim Jong Il has done a fantastic job according to these photos.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... k-dark.htm

Just look at Australia in this one... http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsro ... ts_lrg.jpg We're so third world

Bonus points if you can pick out Alice Springs and the resort near Ayer's Rock.