North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died

[bob]

I didn't see a thread on this

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143933745/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-69-has-died?sc=fb&cc=fp

[Trevor]

2011 has been a good year for getting rid of dictators. 

[AndyC]

2011 has been a good year for getting rid of dictators. 

Trevor is crossing his fingers and saying "Mugabe Mugabe Mugabe."

[Trevor]

2011 has been a good year for getting rid of dictators. 

Trevor is crossing his fingers and saying "Mugabe Mugabe Mugabe."

I recall that in 1980, there were no less than three attempts on his life. Upset by this, he called in his chief of the armed forces, General Peter Walls and took him to task over this, saying: "General Walls, why are your people trying to kill me?" General Walls replied: "Sir, if my people were trying to kill you, you'd be dead already." 

[indianasmith]

Good riddance to that piece of scum!  He let hundreds of thousands of his own people starve to death rather than admit there was a famine and that they could use a little humanitarian aid.

As we say in Texas, hell ain't hot enough for folks like that!

[AndyC]

2011 has been a good year for getting rid of dictators. 

Trevor is crossing his fingers and saying "Mugabe Mugabe Mugabe."

I recall that in 1980, there were no less than three attempts on his life. Upset by this, he called in his chief of the armed forces, General Peter Walls and took him to task over this, saying: "General Walls, why are your people trying to kill me?" General Walls replied: "Sir, if my people were trying to kill you, you'd be dead already." 

What always gets me about Mugabe is that extreme Hitler mustache. Dictators have a strange fashion sense. One need only look at Kim Jong Il to see that.

[Flick James]

Is it just me, or did Kim Jong Il seem like if you peeled away his skin you would see circuitry?

[The Burgomaster]

Yes, I had read that Il was ill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34

[Hammock Rider]

I was watching the report about his death on the news when one of my little nieces came in the room and asked me who "that man" was. I told ehr he was a bad guy. She asked "How bad?" I told her "very bad." "Oh" she said, " Did he say the F word?"

It was really funny but it was also one of those times when the innocence of kids can make you feel better.

[Criswell]

Lets celebrate his death with a cracked article!

http://www.cracked.com/article_17165_6-reasons-north-korea-funniest-evil-dictatorship-ever.html

Watching North Korea is like watching children trying to run a country.

[tracy]

Good riddance to that piece of scum!  He let hundreds of thousands of his own people starve to death rather than admit there was a famine and that they could use a little humanitarian aid.

As we say in Texas, hell ain't hot enough for folks like that!

Absolutely!

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk&feature=player_embedded

[Raffine]

It's probably most appropriate to remember him around here for producing a bad giant monster movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwjzeO8gG8I

Lil' Kim had kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and forced him to make the movie.  The monster was played by Kenpachiro Satsuma, who played Godzilla all during the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Satsuma has said he thought it was at least better than the Emmerick's American GODZILLA (1998).

Kim also made Shin remarry his ex-wife actress Choi Eun-hee, whom Kim had also had kidnapped.

The couple eventually escaped to the U.S. Kim told everybody who would listen Pres. Reagan had kidnapped them from North Korea.