Kim Jong Un dead?
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<div class="IPBDescription">That's The Rumor</div>from forbes:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->In the past two hours, Twitter has exploded with unsubstantiated rumors that the new North Korean dictator died in Beijing today and that a coup is underway in North Korea. All rumor of course, and one that appears to have been started on China’s twitter-like platform Weibo. As the story goes, a couple assassins barged into Kim’s room in Beijing and shot him, before being shot and killed themselves by bodyguards.
Twitter user ChristianJMay says the rumor is “based on news that a host of blacked out cars have descended upon embassy in Beijing, where he was visiting.â€
User Rocco_Castoro has a different source of information, tweeting “This just in: Kim Jong-un’s cause of death was being force-fed hotdogs and having a basketball bounced off his head repeatedly for 20 hours.â€
We’ll find out soon enough if Little Kim has followed his father Kim Jong-Il into the hereafter. If he is alive and well, this day of rumors will mark the real beginning of his rule. Kim was expected, after his father’s death on Dec. 17, to abide by a 100-day mourning period, like his father did upon the death of Kim Il-Sung in 1994.Yet an article in the Korea JoongAng Daily this week notes that Kim has already come out of mourning, and has been seen traveling North Korea, visiting tourist traps like “the Seoul Ryu Kyong-su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army in Pyongyang.â€
Then there’s this heart-melting passage:
Kim Jong-un is already showing a different public personality than that of his father. While Kim Jong-il maintained a distance from the public, wearing sunglasses and rarely having physical contact with the public, the young successor doesn’t hesitate to act friendly and intimately with the people. That is the kind of behavior associated with his grandfather, Kim Il Sung. In a documentary aired recently by the North’s Korean Central Television, Kim Jong-un’s broad smiles and bold gestures were shown. He whispered in the ears of other soldiers and held the hand of a wife of a military leader. During a visit to an Air Force unit on Jan. 20, he hugged soldiers. When he visited Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on Jan. 25, Kim touched the faces of students and tasted soy sauce.
Soy sauce! Who doesn’t like soy sauce? I would have advised him to tuck into a big bowl of kim-chi, the spicy pickled cabbage that is Korea’s equivalent of apple pie with ice cream.
Still, maybe this Kim is not so bad after all. He’s even said to love the iPad 2 and is set to allow Egyptian mobile operator Orascom Telecom to set up internet connections in North Korea.
If Kim is dead, if there is a coup underway in North Korea, it’s likely because after his magnanimous visits to their bases in recent weeks, the army decided that Kim is too much of a softie to keep the North Koreans sealed tighly in their gulag.
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<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->In the past two hours, Twitter has exploded with unsubstantiated rumors that the new North Korean dictator died in Beijing today and that a coup is underway in North Korea. All rumor of course, and one that appears to have been started on China’s twitter-like platform Weibo. As the story goes, a couple assassins barged into Kim’s room in Beijing and shot him, before being shot and killed themselves by bodyguards.
Twitter user ChristianJMay says the rumor is “based on news that a host of blacked out cars have descended upon embassy in Beijing, where he was visiting.â€
User Rocco_Castoro has a different source of information, tweeting “This just in: Kim Jong-un’s cause of death was being force-fed hotdogs and having a basketball bounced off his head repeatedly for 20 hours.â€
We’ll find out soon enough if Little Kim has followed his father Kim Jong-Il into the hereafter. If he is alive and well, this day of rumors will mark the real beginning of his rule. Kim was expected, after his father’s death on Dec. 17, to abide by a 100-day mourning period, like his father did upon the death of Kim Il-Sung in 1994.Yet an article in the Korea JoongAng Daily this week notes that Kim has already come out of mourning, and has been seen traveling North Korea, visiting tourist traps like “the Seoul Ryu Kyong-su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army in Pyongyang.â€
Then there’s this heart-melting passage:
Kim Jong-un is already showing a different public personality than that of his father. While Kim Jong-il maintained a distance from the public, wearing sunglasses and rarely having physical contact with the public, the young successor doesn’t hesitate to act friendly and intimately with the people. That is the kind of behavior associated with his grandfather, Kim Il Sung. In a documentary aired recently by the North’s Korean Central Television, Kim Jong-un’s broad smiles and bold gestures were shown. He whispered in the ears of other soldiers and held the hand of a wife of a military leader. During a visit to an Air Force unit on Jan. 20, he hugged soldiers. When he visited Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on Jan. 25, Kim touched the faces of students and tasted soy sauce.
Soy sauce! Who doesn’t like soy sauce? I would have advised him to tuck into a big bowl of kim-chi, the spicy pickled cabbage that is Korea’s equivalent of apple pie with ice cream.
Still, maybe this Kim is not so bad after all. He’s even said to love the iPad 2 and is set to allow Egyptian mobile operator Orascom Telecom to set up internet connections in North Korea.
If Kim is dead, if there is a coup underway in North Korea, it’s likely because after his magnanimous visits to their bases in recent weeks, the army decided that Kim is too much of a softie to keep the North Koreans sealed tighly in their gulag.
Updates to come.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Tell "both sides of story" - provide public forum for crackpot trolls.
In the actual World War Z (book that is, not in the <i>actual</i>, real World War Z), North Korea retreats underground into a vast network of tunnels and caverns and no one else in the world can (safely) get close enough to check if they're okay because of all the automated defences they left running.
I'm assuming you meant "couldn't".
The real reason they were iffy about knocking on NK's underground bunkers is the chance that there were a couple million zombies trapped in there.
--Scythe--
<!--quoteo(post=1902730:date=Feb 13 2012, 11:27 PM:name=That_Annoying_Kid)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (That_Annoying_Kid @ Feb 13 2012, 11:27 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1902730"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I reject that premise. Automated defenses could be whittled down eventually.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
But yeah, the incentive isn't there. The world has just gotten over the most devastating war in history, it doesn't have the resources to waste on something as frivolous as a giant mine clearing operation for no clear gain.
Well sure they *could* get in, but no one cares enough to launch a military operation to check in on a bunch of ######. Even if there isn't an entire nation's worth of zombies holed up in an underground bunker, you've got an entire nation's worth of North Koreans locked up inside of an underground bunker. They're both terrible things to open.
On the waddle may be more appropriate.
So what happened to them silly N Korea BEST KOREANS in said story?
<!--quoteo(post=1902131:date=Feb 11 2012, 04:24 PM:name=X_Stickman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (X_Stickman @ Feb 11 2012, 04:24 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1902131"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->In the actual World War Z (book that is, not in the <i>actual</i>, real World War Z), North Korea retreats underground into a vast network of tunnels and caverns and no one else in the world can (safely) get close enough to check if they're okay because of all the automated defences they left running.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not dead, just napping!