How ill is Il?

[tycho102]

Originally Posted by Tronics

Perhaps we should start a betting pool on the fate of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after his succession takes place? I'd wager for a small civil war between his sons.

I'd wager they change the name to "The Cunning and Glorious Emperor's Feudal Realm of Korea" and then institute mandatory voting for local and federal government officials, require all citizens to pass literacy tests, removing the land mines from the DMZ, putting up cellphone towers in cities and mandating five satellite phones in each rural village powered by solar panels and RTG's, releasing all prisoners in Kwan Li So, and using all the money hidden in Swiss bank accounts to modernize the agriculture industry.

[Tchocky]

He's not sick, he's just ronery.

[Safe-Keeper]

I won't mourn the man for a second when he passes on. I only hope there will be some sort of improvement in ruling system. The North Korean people are indoctrinated pretty much from birth to consider their leaders supernatural, swallowing stories of magical powers and eternal life (see, Kim Il-Sung is just asleep, the 10 000 cranes that descended to lift him into Heaven upon his death turned back empty-handed when they saw the people of North Korea mourning their dead leader), so we can't expect help from them. There are several documentaries on Google Video and YouTube about the country and its rulers - Children of the Secret State is definitely worth your closer inspection.

In the case of transfer of power between Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, I believe Jong-Il was favoured to be the next leader and that his brother was sent away to a remote part of the country to keep him from starting a power struggle, so it went completely peacefully, as far as I know. What the next succession will be like, though, I don't know.

Are there any democratic states left? Most states have turned communistic / socialistic, including pretty much all of Europe. Since this is the case, I's have to say that NK is going to be more of the same in the future!

Even if this is just a joke, what's with all these right-wing people thinking Europe is a Hell-hole of semi-dictatorship and poverty?

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

There are several documentaries on Google Video and YouTube about the country and its rulers - Children of the Secret State is definitely worth your closer inspection.

Get National Geographics' Inside North Korea DVD and be sickened by just how indoctrinated (and frightened) the people are.

[Jimbuna]

Not too dissimilar to what China was like not so many years back

Wanna see some non-democracy?
Come here and you will instantly notice how much our goverment is corrupt.
But we survive...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by GakunGak

Wanna see some non-democracy?
Come here and you will instantly notice how much our goverment is corrupt.
But we survive...

No thanks
Our present government are more than enough for me