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Maybe South Korea will annex NK :MARIS61:
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I think there's been talk of unification all along, but it was the North taking over the South?
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Jimmy Carter just lost a dear friend.
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Good God.. when I started this video the wife thought I randomly started playing left for dead
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Kim Jong Il dead: 17 bizarre details about the Dear Leader's life
The dictator issued strange decrees and fed the personality cult around him. Here are 17 of his weirdest moments...
1. His official biography claimed his birth was foretold by a swallow and led to the appearance of a double rainbow along with the emergence of a new star in space. He went on to spread the myth among his subjects that his mood could control the weather.
2. You may not be aware of this, but Kim Jong-Il was the world's greatest golfer... According to an official government handout marking his 62nd birthday, Kim celebrated by demolishing a par 72 course in just 34 strokes, managing a world record five holes-in-one on the way. To top it all, the superhuman round was apparently the first time he had actually played the sport.
3. In 2006, German giant rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky was contacted by Pyongyang, asking if they could buy 12 of the bumper bunnies. Having seen the massive rabbits in a newspaper, Kim planned to set up a breeding programme to boost meat production in the famine-hit country. Despite Szmolinsky warning the rabbits would make the situation worse - they only yield about 15 pounds of meat and have a huge appetite for carrots and potatoes - Kim insisted the animals should still be sent. Szmolinsky claims once the animals arrived Kim ate them himself as part of his birthday celebrations.
4. In 2004, a former chef for Kim revealed the North Korean leader employed staff to make sure the grains of rice served to him were absolutely uniform in size and colour.
5. In 2010 Kim Jong-Il banned the World Cup from being broadcast in North Korea unless the national team won. The communist country's state-run TV stations were ordered not to broadcast live matches or games involving other nations, with only heavily edited highlights of North Korean victories permitted to be screened.
6. Hacked off by the lack of film-makers in his native land, in 1978 Kim arranged for two South Korean directors to be kidnapped from Hong Kong and brought to him. They tried to escape but eventually relented, making a string of movies for him including the cult Godzilla rip-off Pulgasari.
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7. After being told by doctor's to give up smoking in 2007, Kim quit then decided he needed to go one step further to protect his health and so outlawed ***s for the rest of his compatriots with a nationwide ban.
8. According to Russian emissary Konstantin Pulikovsky, who travelled with Mr Kim by train across Eastern Europe, Kim had live lobsters air-lifted to the train every day which he ate with silver chopsticks. Where did all his food go? An official biography on the North Korean state website declared Kim Jong Il did not defecate. The biography has since been removed.
9. After suffering a back injury following a horse riding accident, Kim was prescribed painkillers. Fearful of becoming addicted, he ordered a half-dozen of his closest staff to receive the same injection under the logic that if he became dependent, he wouldn't be the only one.
10. As well as being something of a foodie, Kim knew his booze. According to Hennessy, Kim was one of their single biggest customers, importing £350,000 worth of the cognac every year.
11. In 2004 he claimed to have invented the hamburger.
12. One of his unofficial titles was The Central Brain.
13. He once wrote six operas in two years.
14. He has collected more than 20,000 foreign films - with his favourites including Rambo and Friday 13th.
15. He was a keen roller-blader.
16. During a 2001 visit to Moscow by rail he had roast donkey flown to his train every day.
17. In the 1950s he built an entire city called Kijong-Dong that was designed only for propaganda. To this day it has no residents.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...about-the-dear-leader-s-life-115875-23646337/
The dictator issued strange decrees and fed the personality cult around him. Here are 17 of his weirdest moments...
1. His official biography claimed his birth was foretold by a swallow and led to the appearance of a double rainbow along with the emergence of a new star in space. He went on to spread the myth among his subjects that his mood could control the weather.
2. You may not be aware of this, but Kim Jong-Il was the world's greatest golfer... According to an official government handout marking his 62nd birthday, Kim celebrated by demolishing a par 72 course in just 34 strokes, managing a world record five holes-in-one on the way. To top it all, the superhuman round was apparently the first time he had actually played the sport.
3. In 2006, German giant rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky was contacted by Pyongyang, asking if they could buy 12 of the bumper bunnies. Having seen the massive rabbits in a newspaper, Kim planned to set up a breeding programme to boost meat production in the famine-hit country. Despite Szmolinsky warning the rabbits would make the situation worse - they only yield about 15 pounds of meat and have a huge appetite for carrots and potatoes - Kim insisted the animals should still be sent. Szmolinsky claims once the animals arrived Kim ate them himself as part of his birthday celebrations.
4. In 2004, a former chef for Kim revealed the North Korean leader employed staff to make sure the grains of rice served to him were absolutely uniform in size and colour.
5. In 2010 Kim Jong-Il banned the World Cup from being broadcast in North Korea unless the national team won. The communist country's state-run TV stations were ordered not to broadcast live matches or games involving other nations, with only heavily edited highlights of North Korean victories permitted to be screened.
6. Hacked off by the lack of film-makers in his native land, in 1978 Kim arranged for two South Korean directors to be kidnapped from Hong Kong and brought to him. They tried to escape but eventually relented, making a string of movies for him including the cult Godzilla rip-off Pulgasari.
[video=youtube;_6OqNGbw8Ek]
7. After being told by doctor's to give up smoking in 2007, Kim quit then decided he needed to go one step further to protect his health and so outlawed ***s for the rest of his compatriots with a nationwide ban.
8. According to Russian emissary Konstantin Pulikovsky, who travelled with Mr Kim by train across Eastern Europe, Kim had live lobsters air-lifted to the train every day which he ate with silver chopsticks. Where did all his food go? An official biography on the North Korean state website declared Kim Jong Il did not defecate. The biography has since been removed.
9. After suffering a back injury following a horse riding accident, Kim was prescribed painkillers. Fearful of becoming addicted, he ordered a half-dozen of his closest staff to receive the same injection under the logic that if he became dependent, he wouldn't be the only one.
10. As well as being something of a foodie, Kim knew his booze. According to Hennessy, Kim was one of their single biggest customers, importing £350,000 worth of the cognac every year.
11. In 2004 he claimed to have invented the hamburger.
12. One of his unofficial titles was The Central Brain.
13. He once wrote six operas in two years.
14. He has collected more than 20,000 foreign films - with his favourites including Rambo and Friday 13th.
15. He was a keen roller-blader.
16. During a 2001 visit to Moscow by rail he had roast donkey flown to his train every day.
17. In the 1950s he built an entire city called Kijong-Dong that was designed only for propaganda. To this day it has no residents.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...about-the-dear-leader-s-life-115875-23646337/
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A lot of those people looked like they weren't shedding tears. I would not be surprised if they were paid actors by the government.
Famine is a huge problem when the government controls the economy.
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It's actually a lot sicker than that. It is atrocious what goes on over there.
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We already have 30 thousand troops in Korea, unfortunately.
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America will look like this if the AGW alarmists get their way.
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I heard about this on the news, perhaps Fox News as I was surfing. Oddly, I google for it and the news reports are only from right-leaning sites (Fox, Washington Times, etc.). Why is that? Shouldn't left-leaning news organizations be reporting this too? The attitudes expressed by Democrats vs. Republicans in the article below is striking.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...r-to-kim-jong-ils-son-north-korean-media-say/
Former President Jimmy Carter reportedly sent a personal condolence letter to the son of Kim Jong Il, the late North Korean leader who presided over one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency claimed that the former U.S. president sent "a message of condolences" to Kim Jong Un, the son tapped to succeed Kim Jong Il at the helm of the communist state. The news agency said Carter wished the next leader of North Korea "every success as he assumes his new responsibility of leadership, looking forward to another visit to (North Korea) in the future."
A representative for Carter so far has not returned a request for comment on whether the KCNA account was accurate.
But the thought of a former U.S. president sending his best wishes to the next "dear leader" of North Korea while lamenting the loss of the last one didn't sit right with some observers.
"For someone who has uttered nary a word about the plight of the North Korean people ... it seems bizarre to lament the passing of his dictatorship," said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Pletka noted sarcastically that Carter "is in quite charming company" - according to KCNA, messages of condolence also came from the leaders of Syria, Sudan and other rogue regimes.
While Carter may have sent a letter of condolence, other U.S. officials took a much different approach -- celebrating Kim Jong Il's passing as an opportunity for reform.
"The world is a better place now that Kim Jong Il is no longer in it," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in a statement after the North Korean leader died, reportedly of a heart attack. "For more than six decades, people in North Korea have been consigned to lives of dire poverty and cruel oppression under one of the most totalitarian regimes the world has ever known. I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Qaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell."
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tweeted that the rule of Kim Jong Il was "monstrous," expressing hope for a better future.
"May the people of N. Korea come to know the freedom the South has enjoyed for years," Rumsfeld wrote.
North Korea is by many accounts the most isolated society on earth thanks to the Kim dynasty's policies. By law, North Koreans are not allowed to leave North Korea, though some refugees have managed to escape.
Media outlets are state-run, there is no independent judiciary and human rights abuses are widespread.
It is estimated that at least 150,000 political prisoners are held in North Korea's detention camps. As the people of North Korea suffered through famine and a dismal economy, Kim Jong Il used state money to maintain a luxurious lifestyle while building up the nation's military.
Kim Jong Il also interminably frustrated Western leaders with his pursuit of nuclear weapons and his repeated provocation of North Korea's neighbors.
The White House has said little about the legacy of Kim Jong Il, other than to note the country is "in a period of national mourning" to and stress the importance of ensuring the security of South Korea and Japan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement that "we are deeply concerned with the well being of the North Korean people and our thoughts and prayers are with them during these difficult times," while urging the new leadership to put the nation on "the path of peace."
It's unclear whether Carter might have sent any similar words of advice to the next leader of North Korea.
The former president has visited North Korea several times since leaving office, including in 1994 for vital talks on the country's nuclear program. He also visited in 2010 to secure the release of an American held in North Korea, and again earlier this year.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...r-to-kim-jong-ils-son-north-korean-media-say/
Former President Jimmy Carter reportedly sent a personal condolence letter to the son of Kim Jong Il, the late North Korean leader who presided over one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency claimed that the former U.S. president sent "a message of condolences" to Kim Jong Un, the son tapped to succeed Kim Jong Il at the helm of the communist state. The news agency said Carter wished the next leader of North Korea "every success as he assumes his new responsibility of leadership, looking forward to another visit to (North Korea) in the future."
A representative for Carter so far has not returned a request for comment on whether the KCNA account was accurate.
But the thought of a former U.S. president sending his best wishes to the next "dear leader" of North Korea while lamenting the loss of the last one didn't sit right with some observers.
"For someone who has uttered nary a word about the plight of the North Korean people ... it seems bizarre to lament the passing of his dictatorship," said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Pletka noted sarcastically that Carter "is in quite charming company" - according to KCNA, messages of condolence also came from the leaders of Syria, Sudan and other rogue regimes.
While Carter may have sent a letter of condolence, other U.S. officials took a much different approach -- celebrating Kim Jong Il's passing as an opportunity for reform.
"The world is a better place now that Kim Jong Il is no longer in it," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in a statement after the North Korean leader died, reportedly of a heart attack. "For more than six decades, people in North Korea have been consigned to lives of dire poverty and cruel oppression under one of the most totalitarian regimes the world has ever known. I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Qaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell."
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tweeted that the rule of Kim Jong Il was "monstrous," expressing hope for a better future.
"May the people of N. Korea come to know the freedom the South has enjoyed for years," Rumsfeld wrote.
North Korea is by many accounts the most isolated society on earth thanks to the Kim dynasty's policies. By law, North Koreans are not allowed to leave North Korea, though some refugees have managed to escape.
Media outlets are state-run, there is no independent judiciary and human rights abuses are widespread.
It is estimated that at least 150,000 political prisoners are held in North Korea's detention camps. As the people of North Korea suffered through famine and a dismal economy, Kim Jong Il used state money to maintain a luxurious lifestyle while building up the nation's military.
Kim Jong Il also interminably frustrated Western leaders with his pursuit of nuclear weapons and his repeated provocation of North Korea's neighbors.
The White House has said little about the legacy of Kim Jong Il, other than to note the country is "in a period of national mourning" to and stress the importance of ensuring the security of South Korea and Japan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement that "we are deeply concerned with the well being of the North Korean people and our thoughts and prayers are with them during these difficult times," while urging the new leadership to put the nation on "the path of peace."
It's unclear whether Carter might have sent any similar words of advice to the next leader of North Korea.
The former president has visited North Korea several times since leaving office, including in 1994 for vital talks on the country's nuclear program. He also visited in 2010 to secure the release of an American held in North Korea, and again earlier this year.
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