Just when you don’t think that things can get any less interesting in the Hermit Kingdom, something like this pops up.
Is Kim Jong-il for real? The question has baffled foreign intelligence agencies for years but now a veteran Japanese expert on North Korea says the “dear leader” is actually dead – and his role is played by a double.
The expert says Kim died of diabetes in 2003 and world leaders including Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hu Jintao of China have been negotiating with an impostor.
Anyone who is familiar with the history of North Korea knows that the leadership is extremely secretive. It has to be in order to maintain control of a few dozen million starving people through propaganda and fifties-style military deployment. Still, it would take some balls to have been playing ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ since way back when we first lumped those Stalinist murderers in the now infamous Axis of Evil.
Official Unaltered photo by the North Korean Public Relations Desk proving that Kim Jong-il is alive and kicking.
Despite what the article says about this theory being harrumphed at by the experts, I wouldn’t put it past the North. After all, do you really expect to be dealt with from the top of the deck when one of the country’s most stable sources of income is the counterfeiting of U.S. currency for drug smuggling? I think the real question is who is pulling the strings now, if they do indeed have a Kim muppet wandering on stage every few months? There were stories a few years back about his picture being taken down in some of the secretive official buildings and palaces, but I never heard anything else of it.
Are we on the third generation of Kims now? Has there been a successful coup with a shy leader? Are the North Koreans so used to their tag-team divinely inspired duo of past leaders that they will never be able to shake some of the absolutely stunningly stupid propaganda that the Kims have been pumping out since they gained power? Only time will tell.
Oh, and how’s that diplomacy working out for everyone? I heard the North is cracked IAEA seals and reopening the publicly acknowledged nuclear program sites despite our best talky-talk. What does Barack Obama have to say about that?
I miss John Bolton.
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