North Korea’s Kim Jong Il Dies
From: Michelle Malkin
**Written by Doug Powers
It’s being reported that Kim Jong Il, who was a regional menace and global annoyance for years, has died at the age of 69.
From CBS News:
Kim’s death was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media. The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
He has already designated his son, Kim Jong-un, as his heir apparent. The Dear Leader took over the reigns in North Korea sometime between 1992 and 1994 after the death of his father, Kim Il-sung, who had ruled the country for 46 years.
If the “Dear Leader” moniker didn’t sound grandiose enough, a couple of years ago Kim Jong Il gave the person who would be his successor — his son — the title of “Brilliant Comrade.” In other words, things in North Korea will most likely get crazier and more delusional before they get better… if they ever do.
Now we’ll never know if 2012 was going to be Jong Il’s lucky year.
Jimmy Carter has volunteered to lead the US delegation to the funeral. Just kidding… I think.
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
North Korea’s Kim Jong Il Has Died
From: FOXNews.com
URGENT: Kim Jong Il, left, pictured with his son Kim Jong Un, has died at 69, state television reported.
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BREAKING: KIM JONG IL HAS DIED
From: Gateway Pundit
Posted By The P/Oed Patriot
According to Salon.com, the North Korean Communist Dictator Kim Jong Il has died at the age of 69.
Since the creation of the communist country in 1948, North Korea has only had 2 leaders, Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il took power in 1994 after the death of his father.
According to the New York Times, North Korea hasn’t exactly been a paradise under Kim Jong Il and he has slowly been transferring power to his son:
“Under Kim Jong-il, North Korea has become a nuclear power. It has also become the world’s most isolated state, one in which unknown numbers starved during famines in the 1990s, while money flowed to the country’s military programs.
Increasingly reclusive since a reported stroke in 2008, he has been facing external and internal pressures that are forcing him to reach out to China. His government’s disastrous currency revaluation in November 2009 — meant to curb free markets — sparked inflation and deepened food shortages. United Nations sanctions, tightened after North Korea’s nuclear test in 2009, had already curtailed the country’s ability to earn hard currency abroad.
In May 2011, Mr. Kim met with officials in Beijing — his first visit outside North Korea since his stroke — and said his government would try to restart six-party talks on ending its nuclear weapons program, which he angrily abandoned in late 2008 because of preconditions.
Washington and Seoul have demanded that North Korea announce a moratorium before, not after, the talks begin. It is North Korea’s often-repeated position that talks should proceed without preconditions.
In late August 2011, Mr. Kim went to Russia, where he met with President Dmitri A. Medvedev. During their meeting, Mr. Kim agreed to consider a moratorium on nuclear weapons tests and production, and said he wanted to return to the stalled talks on the nation’s nuclear program.
In recent years, Mr. Kim has been taking actions to transfer power to his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, who in September 2010 was appointed a four-star general in the People’s Army. In February 2011, his son was named vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, the country’s most powerful body led by his father.”
H/T Rachel
Obama’s Wish Granted: The Last Convoy Of U.S. Troops Leave Iraq
From: Gateway Pundit
Posted By The P/Oed Patriot
According to Reuters:
“The final column of around 100 mostly U.S. military MRAP armoured vehicles carrying 500 U.S. troops trundled across the southern Iraq desert from their last base through the night and daybreak along an empty highway to the Kuwaiti border.”
I want to Thank all of our Men and Women in Uniform, as well as their families, for their Service and Sacrifice to this Nation.
H/T Breitbart TV
