Errr Rawky - Kim Jong Il is North Korea not South. Or did you mean will it ramp up the hostilites between them now there is a new leader?

 

Don't expect things to get much better for the North Korean people tbh, new boy has probably been raised to be evil dictator mark II

Yeah, I meant will the people of South Korea feel less threatened, will there be reconciliation's etc?

 

By the looks of things, North Koreans are devastated by the news.

 

Ian Stone just tweeted to stand by for the biggest synchronised gymnastics display ever at the funeral/

I think all the tv channels should play Team America in tribute

Very orchestrated public hysteria is a very worrying display of how much power the "authorities" over there weild.

I guess its all in the family and will continue as usual

Do you think they'll chill a bit and end up like Gaddaffi? Nope!! 

I expect we'll have a minute's applause at the Boxing Day game against Hull. We've kept up our links with 'em since 1966 and our lady's team toured there.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/sh...m-jong-il-gaffe.html

 

What a bimbo.

Bin Laden

Gadaffi

Kim Jong

 

...anyone else a bit spooked by this?

 

I don't see the connection per se. Surely for an axis of evil event, the leader of Iran might have been involved.

Serious news, but great for Twitter jokes.

they have to look devasted otherwise they are shot.

This is just baffling

 

Most of the North Koreans have absolutely no idea what goes on outside their country so it seems that they actually believe their leaders and therefore will genuinely grieve for him. When one village doesn't know what the next one is doing, the population can not be expected to revolt. They have no idea that there is a totally different world outside their borders. They hardly know the next Mr. Kim but will swear lifetime allegiance because they are convienced that this guy is like his father and grandfather and so can be relied apon to look after them and the country. It's very frightening to have 22 million people agreeing with 1 million army personel.

Professional Wailers 

I imagine the South Koreans (and the Japanese) are very, very concerned. Both countries have gone on high alert (and the fact that North Korea test-fired a missile over the Sea of Japan this morning probably didn't lighten their mood...  )

The problem is that there's doubt not just over what Kim Jong-un will be like, but whether he'll be able to take full control at all. The feeling in some quarters is that he's too young and not been around long enough to be able to control the army. As nearly all of the country's production goes towards the military, you can imagine that the generals might want to keep control for thenselves...

i saw a documentray a while back , about a group of  eye doctors travelling around  north korea and perfoming mass cateract operations, in the villages and towns.

 

 all the people who needed the op were all in a big room, and they were preached at by the doctors that their sight would be restored by the good grace of  kim jong il.

 

after the op, the locals had to get themselves into a frenzy of gratitude and worship kim jong il, it  was expected and the guy in the documentary was convinced they were thanking   him as a god, because  the police are always watching, and  better to be safe than sorry.

Although it's a bit more extreme, it reminds me of the hysteria when the Princess of Wales died. 

What happened to that post calling Jessica Wright a bimbo for saying R.I.P that this guy had died?    It was there a few minutes ago,

How odd, it just vanished... 

 

Jessica Wright from TOWIE poured out her condolences for Kim Jong Il, not realising that he was a dictator.  And people on twitter and facebook have been horrible about her.  FFS, not EVERYone  knows everything about politics.  If she had said 'I'm glad the bastard is dead and I hope he rots in hell' she would've been slagged off for that too.  

 

BTW, the 'outpouring of grief' from the North Korean people looks very staged to me - and most people I have discussed this with.  JMO of course.

That's exactly what Mr Ditty has been saying 

They only have one tv channel and its usually constantly playing shows about how good he is (well was now)

yeah I know Jen.

 

Ickle is in love with a South Korean band (Big Bang), one member in particular (G Dragon)...   So we have been saturated with numerous factoids about North & South Korea for some time now 

 

Its hard to fathom the difference between the two countries...     

   I love that film,  but I fell terrible for loving it.  

Team America is great!

 

there are still many references made to it in this house...    i.e.  the international sign of distress 

I think you would have to have been living on a different planet to not know that he wasn't the nicest of people! 

 

I do agree that the grief does look quite staged, but then I would never have believed that people could have behaved as they did when Diana died.  It seems quite easy for mass hysteria to take hold. 

This is the object of my daughters affections (the one on the right)...  G Dragon

 

 

I prefer the one on the left 

 

 

 

Still..   can't dislike a bloke who loves his dog! 

oooh!    Again..    MrD has been saying this too!

 

We were in the kebab shop last night (don't ask ) and the news was on...   I was OMG'ing at the wailing...   & he said "nah... they just aren't trying...    I would put that on a par with the Jade Goody Funeral..     they should study the Diana funeral footage for tips" 

 

OMG  LOL!    That's pretty much what everyone I know has been saying... on a scale of one to ten, the fakeness of their outpouring of grief is an eleven!

Reminds me of the Diana funeral..legs it.

You a bit constipated there Cupcake?