Ding-dong the Kim Jong is gone?

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OH NO! What is Rob Pongi gonna use for material now?!

North Korean Media Drop Kim Jong-il's 'Dear Leader' Title
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea -Nov 18Reports out of Japan say North Korea's official media is no longer using the glorifying term of "dear leader" while referring to the country's head, Kim Jong-il ...
...According to the Japanese monitoring agency Radiopress, the North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station, as well as the Korean Central News Agency and other media were simply calling him "general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea," " the chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission," OR "supreme commander of the Korean People's Army."
Speculation is mounting as analysts seek to understand the significance of such events. Some are saying they may be indications of change in the political structure in North Korea.

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OH NO! No more firing rockets at me on vacation in Tohoku/ I wonder what Soviet Supreme has to say about this?

Ok, here's a sort-of inside source....Robyn Lim, professor of international relations at Nanzan University.
Professor Lim has a lot fun ideas, he, hee...

Date: 11/17/2004 6:30:00 AM
From: Robyn Lim
Subject: NBR'S JAPAN FORUM (POL)[b] Coup in Pyongyang?]/b]

Forum members will have seen press reports that portraits of Kim Jong Il are being removed from public buildings in Pyongyang.
Portraits of his father, Kim Il Sung, remain in place.
Condi Rice's replacement of Colin Powell, who allowed himself to be intimidated in Beijing on his last visit, may not be unrelated to these events. No doubt, there were many in Pyongyang, as elsewhere, who had convinced themselves that Kerry would win the US elections. Kerry, it will be recalled, had been promoting the idea of bilateral negotiations with North Korea, which Pyongyang would have seen as a way of ensuring concessions from Washington.
If John Bolton is promoted, the effect on Pyongyang might be even more interesting, given Bolton's central role in the Proliferation Security Initiative.
But it must be obvious in both Pyongyang and Beijing that Bush means business. And that US ground forces may be beginning to pull themselves out of the mire in Iraq, given recent successes in Fallujah and elsewhere. (Which even the Guardian has noted).
There have also been recent reports of North Korea's sending nuclear-related material to Iran. As well as its usual proliferation activities to Iran, Syria, Sudan etc.
Telephones used by foreign residents have been cut off, and the secret police have assumed controls of the country's mobile phone services.
No one can do more than speculate. But this could indeed presage a coup, presumably by hardliners in the military and security services who fear and resent even the slight opening up that Kim Jong Il has recently presided over. It's not hard to imagine what grizzled veterans of the Korean War really think of Kim Jong Il.
Until very recently, Kim Jong Il's disappearance from the public scene had been attributed to the recent death from cancer of his favourite consort, Koh Young-hee, the mother of his heir-apparent.
But it now looks as if much more might be going on.
Robyn Lim
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[Big Booger]

OH NO! What is Rob Pongi gonna use for material now?!

HAHAHA!!! San Queue Taro-sama! But don't worry, there is at least two (2) more hours of some of the most TRULY WACKED and very surreal video footage from North Korea in the Pongi Powervault (TM).

But this is, indeed, a very interesting article. Thank you for posting it. However, I noticed earlier today that the North Korea has yet to update its official website in accordance with this new 'reform':




And no matter how much Candy Rice (Rice Candy?) flaps her mouth off, the US military WILL NOT drop into the north 'uninvited' so to speak. No. Not an option. None of the above. Remember, very recently, China moved an additional 30,000 troops to the North Korean border and combined with China's deployment of 150,000 troops to the border last year that fully-armed deployment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops exceeds the number of US troops currently based in Iraq. And, of course, the media reports it all as a 'deterrent' to the influx of North Korean refugees and a move to pressure Pyongyang on the nuclear issue etc. But with 180,000 fully-armed, locked and loaded Chinese troops dug in and ready to rock at a moment's notice, the real message is very clear:

"YANKEE GO HOME!"

And the last I read, it is already starting to happen!

Peace

How many nukes would it take to kill them all?

[dimwit]

How many nukes would it take to kill them all?

Unfortunately enough to expose us in Japan to a nice JCO style snowstorm of dust.

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Kim Jong-Il badges vanish from North Korean chests
11-25-2004, 07h57
SEOUL (AFP) - Badges depicting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, a key symbol of his cult of personality, are disappearing from peoples' chests in the communist country.
South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed that lapel badges of Kim were no longer worn by North Koreans travelling from the Stalinist state to China on official business. ...more...

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Arrrrrrg! There are no Dear Lear Kim badges!
And the flag badges are gone too. Does this mean that Kim's Korea is going out business?

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.... I noticed earlier today that the North Korea has yet to update its official website in accordance with this new 'reform':

Yes Rob Pongi...you are a "Top Kiminologist" too....

Shifting signs in North Korea
--Kim Jong Il dials back personality cult as protest activities pick up--.
December 01, 2004 edition of The Christian Science Monitor
...Top Kiminologists like Japan's Kosuke Takahashi say he is downplaying his personality in order to court younger South Koreans. Ruediger Frank, professor of East Asian Political Economy at the University of Vienna, sees this as a preparation for succession and an eventual collective leadership. ...
... Refugees also indicate that opposition has become more open and daring. More and more pamphlets and banners are appearing calling for Kim's overthrow. Almost all refugees report seeing slogans such as "Down with Kim Jong Il" painted on walls, pylons, and railway carriages throughout the country. Statues and murals of the Kims have been defaced, and the halls erected for worship of the Kim family have been burnt down. Some officials have been found killed in their homes....
...Small signs often portend big changes in closed societies, especially in the secretive court of North Korea's Kim dynasty. Observers are wondering if this is just another mad whim from the palace - like the edicts forbidding women to wear red trousers or to eat hamburgers....