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North Korea: Dear Leaderless?
Recently, there have been a number of media reports that tyrannical megalomaniac Dear Leader Kim Jong “Licensed to” Il is sick. He hasn’t been seen in public for nearly three weeks, and according to some sources he is suffering from both diabetes and heart disease.
I have some good news and some bad news for all you North Korea groupies out there.
The good news is that Kim isn’t sick.
The bad news is that he’s dead.
Or at least that’s what one political scientist thinks:
[A] book by Japan’s Professor Toshimitsu Shigemura at Japan’s respected Waseda University says Kim died in the autumn of 2003 and a series of stand-ins have since taken his place at official state event. Prof. Shigemura says Kim was not seen in public for the 42 days after September 10, 2003, and in his book “The True Character of Kim Jong Il” claims the man that North Koreans refer to as the “Dear Leader” died of diabetes. . . .
[In August 2003], suddenly, Kim disappeared, says Shigemura, and there was chaos in the upper echelons of the country’s leadership. . . .After Kim’s death, a group of four very senior officials in the regime decided to protect their own positions by making the stand-in more permanent. Whenever anyone meets the North Korean leader, Shigemura says one of the four is alongside him “like a puppet-master.”
This is going to screw up my Axis of Evil fantasy league.
Maybe we should start calling him Dearly Departed Leader. Or Kim Jong Nil.
Image: Wikipedia, in the public domain.
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