Aaron747 From Japan, joined Aug 2003, 7631 posts, RR: 28 Posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2235 times:
Well this is a little out of left field...South Korean analysts say they're not sure what to make of it given all the rumors over the last year. Hope it's true - the kid apparently speaks English, has spent considerable time abroad, and is probably aided by having his legitimacy at least partially in question
North Korea's Kim Jong Il has anointed his 26-year-old son — said to be competitive, proficient in English and a heavy drinker — as the next leader of the communist state, news reports said Tuesday...
The son already is being hailed as "Commander Kim," and North Koreans are learning the lyrics to a new song praising him as the next leader, the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said.
The kid certainly has an interesting background, if all this can be considered true anyway. I dug up this great little nugget in a google search about his mother, Ko Yong-hi, six years deceased (and you already thought the DPRK was strange!):
Ms Ko reportedly caught Mr Kim's eye as one of 2,000 girls employed in the dictator's "pleasure groups". She was a dancer in the Mansudae Art Troupe in Pyongyang. Each "pleasure group" is composed of three teams - a "satisfaction team", which performs sexual services; a "happiness team," which provides massage and a "dancing and singing team".
These teams, recruited from girls' high schools, undergo a six-month training course before they are assigned to one of the dictator's 32 villas and palaces until the age of 25.
Aaron747 From Japan, joined Aug 2003, 7631 posts, RR: 28 Reply 2, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2217 times:
^
You know that Independent article would be enough to send the place into revolution overnight. Maybe we just need to be dropping laptops in hard-cases into DPRK with the desktop wallpaper saved to the Korean translation of the article...
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Offloaded From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2009, 700 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2198 times:
A satisfaction team and a happiness team chosen from 2000 girls of high school age up to 25. Sounds like every bloke's ultimate fantasy! You can keep the singing and dancing team though.
On a serious note, it would be great to think that North Korea had a chance at being run by someone who should be more conciliatory to the South and the west in general. The average North Korean has had it pretty rough for the last 50 years.
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LMP737 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2168 times:
Quoting Aaron747 (Thread starter): North Korea's Kim Jong Il has anointed his 26-year-old son — said to be competitive, proficient in English and a heavy drinker — as the next leader of the communist state, news reports said Tuesday...
Wonderfull, a drunk in his mid twenties, can do anything he wants, who has nuclear weapons and probably has daddy issues.
Waterpolodan From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1649 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2157 times:
Quoting Offloaded (Reply 4): On a serious note, it would be great to think that North Korea had a chance at being run by someone who should be more conciliatory to the South and the west in general. The average North Korean has had it pretty rough for the last 50 years.
I have no doubt that this new incarnation of the dear leader will be just as deluded and heinous to his people and the rest of the world in general, perhaps even more so than his father because this guy has spent more time abroad and seen how horribly far behind NK is, so he'll do anything to keep the country blissfully unaware. It still shocks me to think about how totally and completely isolated that country is, I wonder how many more decades of this sort of existence they can handle?
LMP737 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2147 times:
Quoting Waterpolodan (Reply 6): It still shocks me to think about how totally and completely isolated that country is, I wonder how many more decades of this sort of existence they can handle?
Having seen what happened to the USSR when they loosened their grip a little Kim knows he has to keep and even tighter hold on the country. God knows how long this will go on.
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 8, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2138 times:
I have a simple question.
Can't secret services get us rid of this dictatorial family so we are done with them for good?
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
Falstaff From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 5671 posts, RR: 29 Reply 9, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2136 times:
Quoting LMP737 (Reply 5): a drunk in his mid twenties who can do anything he wants and has nuclear weapons.
I once saw in a documentary that Kim Jong Il was at one time the largest private buyer of cognac in the world. He must have been a drunk too. So like father like son. We already had one drunk so how bad can the next one be.
The documentary was about an eye doctor from Nepal who came to North Korea to do cataract surgery a few years ago. The doctor and his team smuggled cameras in their gear. It was an amazing program
Quoting Baroque (Reply 1): clearly it is a hereditary monarchy
That is what it looks like.
Quoting Offloaded (Reply 4): Sounds like every bloke's ultimate fantasy! You can keep the singing and dancing team though.
I would sign up for that! If I could have 2000 girls I think I would explode.
Quoting Aaron747 (Reply 2): Maybe we just need to be dropping laptops in hard-cases into DPRK with the desktop wallpaper saved to the Korean translation of the article...
They probably wouldn't know what to do with a computer. We should drop newspapers instead.
Quoting Aaron747 (Reply 2): You know that Independent article would be enough to send the place into revolution overnight
They wouldn't believe an independent source. I doubt they could have a revolution either, the average person doesn't have any guns to stand up against anyone.
Corinthians From United States of America, joined May 2008, 273 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 2083 times:
Quoting Doona (Reply 3): Is this the guy who got picked up by Japanese authorities whilst spending time at Disneyland in Tokyo on a fake passport?
No...that's Kim Jong-nam. He's the oldest son and he supposedly divides his time between Beijing and Macau and has little to do with his father. Some Japanaese or Chinese station did an interview with him at Beijing airport and he apparently speaks pretty decent English.
AznMadSci From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 3541 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2061 times:
Quoting Offloaded (Reply 4): Sounds like every bloke's ultimate fantasy!
Quoting Falstaff (Reply 9): If I could have 2000 girls I think I would explode.
2000!!! For most blokes even a fantasy of just 2 gals would cause them to explode!
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Flighty From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 7438 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 2032 times:
Suddenly it makes sense why they want to stay in power.
Slider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37 Reply 16, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 2008 times:
Quoting LMP737 (Reply 5): Wonderfull, a drunk in his mid twenties, can do anything he wants, who has nuclear weapons and probably has daddy issues.
Give the kid a break....he's ronery. Oh so ronery...
Waterpolodan From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1649 posts, RR: 5 Reply 19, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1967 times:
Looks like the dear leader's summer retreat... I see little lakes, pools, palaces, and even a horse track. Too bad we can't see 2000 girls on the resolution we get with google earth...
JeffSFO From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 820 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1950 times:
LMP737 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 21, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1917 times:
Quoting Falstaff (Reply 9): I once saw in a documentary that Kim Jong Il was at one time the largest private buyer of cognac in the world. He must have been a drunk too. So like father like son. We already had one drunk so how bad can the next one be.
Dragon6172 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 1160 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1894 times:
One question... is he as good a golfer as his father?
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 24, posted (3 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1883 times:
Quoting NoUFO (Reply 23): Kim Il-Sung was Kim Jong-Il's father. Remember, Kim is their last name.
I know, but I can't remember where, but I did hear that Krazy Kim did change his title to the same one, his long dead father used to have, and still has post mortem.
25 NoUFO: Certainly not. That would be inappropriate, even by Kim Jong-Il's standards.
27 LTU932: You're probably right, but remember, there is a reason why some of us call the "Dear Leader" just "Krazy Kim".
28 NoUFO: My favourite editorial cartoonist, Heiko Sakurai, came up with two new cartoons concerning the North Korean leadership succession. I especially like t
29 RedFlyer: Wouldn't the word 'Monarchy' imply that power emanates from God? I would think in their Atheist society that would not be possible. But then, now tha
30 Jcs17: You have to admit, it wouldn't be a bad gig if you weren't completely brainwashed. Enjoy your pleasure teams, wait for your old man to die, kill off t
31 Falstaff: Now that you mention it, that is correct.
32 Michlis: Or the military could pull the new "leader's" strings and try and unite the two Koreas much faster and on their terms.
33 L410Turbolet: Probably too optimistic, but it would be nice. He certainly would secure himself a Nobel Peace Prize (not that it means anything thanks to cerain pri
34 Timlin88: I believe that this youngest son spend some years here in Switzerland, at a private school in Bern. He was there under a false name, and no-one, excep
35 NoUFO: Geneva more precisely. Hopefully that time made a lasting impression on him. After all he spent some influential years in a truly enviable mountain v
36 Timlin88: Pretty sure it was Bern. I checked the L'Hebdo online archives and found that Kim Jong-un spent a number of years in the International School of Bern
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