Kim Jong-Il died last December, although North Korea only
really has one friend in China, the world still watches with interest over
Kim’s death. North Korea is one of the few remaining communist countries left
and certainly the most secretive. It has a huge military (4th in the
world in terms of active military personnel, despite being 51st in
terms of population), every so often it has minor border scraps with South
Korea that keep tensions between the two Koreas high. But it is the country’s
nuclear capabilities that worry the rest of the world. Especially since Kim
Jong-Il’s inexperienced son, Kim Jong-Un is the one to take power. The fears of
a scrap between the leading generals in who will control North Korea have yet
to occur, if they ever do. I feel that he will likely remain a puppet leader
with the generals making the actual decisions.
Watching the funeral was quite fascinating, it’s hard to
imagine any western country pouring out that much grief over a dead leader. How
much of that grief was genuine, we probably will never know, on the one hand
the people of Korea are so brainwashed to think that Kim Jong-Il was the man
who saved them from the evil outside world that the grief might actually be
genuine. Yet in a country were half the people are starving and the top live in
total luxury (so much for “communism”) it’s hard to imagine that if they knew
the truth, they’d be so devastated.
Kim Jong-Il
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