• N.K Dictator reportedly in China with son for succession talks, back near border area,
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[quote] CHANGCHUN, China — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il apparently headed home after a secretive and surprise trip that reportedly included a meeting with China's top leader to appeal for diplomatic and financial support for a succession plan involving his youngest son. Reporters have followed a motorcade — apparently used by the reclusive Kim — around several cities in northeast China. The 35-vehicle convoy accompanied by police cars with flashing lights was seen headed to the train station in Changchun on Saturday. Kim rarely leaves North Korea and when he does he travels by special train. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday that Kim is believed to have traveled to Yanbian, a Korean autonomous prefecture in the far northeastern Chinese province of Jilin bordering North Korea, after leaving Changchun's railway station. Yonhap cited an unidentified diplomatic source in Yanji, capital of Yanbian, as saying that Yanbian's local government was busy preparing to accept a visitor who it says is likely to be Kim. Yonhap said Kim has never visited Yanbian. North Korea does not announce Kim's trips until he returns home, and China has refused to say if he is in the country, even though a Japanese television station had a grainy picture of him. Son goes along Kim was reportedly accompanied by his son, Kim Jong Un, believed to be in his 20s. Many North Korea watchers predict the son will be appointed to a key party position at a ruling Workers' Party meeting early next month — the first such gathering in decades. To pull off the event with sufficient fanfare, North Korea will need Chinese aid, particularly following the devastating floods that battered the country's northwest this month, analysts said. Story continues below More below Sponsored links Advertisement | ad info Advertisement | ad info "The convention needs to be festive with the party giving out food or normalizing day-to-day life for its people, but with the recent flood damages they are not able to," said Cheong Seong-chang, a senior fellow at the Sejong Institute think tank outside Seoul. "The most important thing on Kim's agenda is scoring Chinese aid, which will ensure that the meeting will be well received by the people." Image: A man believed to be North Korean leader Kim Jong Il AP A man believed to be North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center facing away from camera, is greeted at Changchun rail station in Changchun, China, Saturday. Asked whether Kim was visiting China, a duty officer with the press office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said: "China and North Korea consistently maintain high-level contacts. We will release the relevant information in good time." Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi sidestepped a question from his visiting Japanese counterpart about widespread reports saying Kim was visiting China, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Satoru Satoh said. Yang made no response to the query but said China will continue cooperating with Japan on the North Korea issue, Satoh said. Succession likely discussed South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper and Yonhap both reported that Kim was believed to have met Chinese President Hu Jintao in Changchun on Friday. The Dong-a Ilbo newspaper carried a similar report, saying the two are believed to have discussed the North's succession, the resumption of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program, and ways to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation. China, as North Korea's biggest diplomatic ally and a major source of food aid and oil, would expect to be kept in the loop about major political transitions in the North, but the Beijing leadership is not likely to be enthusiastic about the prospect of another dynastic succession next door, said Zhu Feng, director of Peking University's Center for International and Strategic Studies. Kim also badly needs Chinese aid because of flooding earlier this month that damaged or destroyed more than 7,000 homes, and inundated 17,800 acres (7,200 hectares) of farmland close to the border with China, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported this week. KCNA said China has already agreed to deliver some aid to help North Korea cope with the disaster but didn't give specifics. The North faces chronic food shortages and has relied on outside aid to feed much of its 24 million people since a famine that is believed to have killed as many as 2 million people in the 1990s. In an attempt to improve its meager economy, it has experimented with limited market reforms and sought foreign investment, mostly from China and South Korea. But tensions with the South have caused trade and joint economic projects with the South to wither and raised the importance of Pyongyang's ties to Beijing. [/quote] [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38896299/ns/world_news-asia-pacific[/url]
I hate Kim Jong Il so fucking much. [editline]08:21PM[/editline] You're supposed to be fucking Communist you douchebag, inheritance is illegal under communism
[QUOTE=AwpersAreBad;24477267]I hate Kim Jong Il so fucking much. [editline]08:21PM[/editline] You're supposed to be fucking Communist you douchebag, inheritance is illegal under communism[/QUOTE] No one has ever been a true Communist.
Yeah communism always ends up failing. I thought they said he was immortal....
*Insert some Pro-America anti-communism propaganda here*
North Korea was never Communist, even in Sungs days it was never communist. North Korea is the equivalent of that really douchy college guy who has an anarchy tattoo who always blabbers on and on about his "views" but is wearing vans shoes and shops in a shopping center. bit of an odd analogy but it fits the bill. North Korea is communist in name only. It's more of a Dictatorship with some really mad personality cult undertones.
If Kim managed to brainwash his own son then I can already smell the black ops assassination.
I hope this regime falls apart when Kim dies. [editline]09:24PM[/editline] [QUOTE=bigbigzubra;24477656]*Insert some Pro-America anti-communism propaganda here*[/QUOTE] *insert something about how because you're a furry, you are subhuman*
It will be shook alright technically Kim is not the leader, Sung is, and he is dead. They never let him go when he died, and im pretty sure they won't let Kim go without a decade of drama too.
North Korea isn't communist
[QUOTE=bigbigzubra;24477656]*Insert some Pro-America anti-communism propaganda here*[/QUOTE] [img]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/215/4/2/Liberty_Prime___Death_by_Jay13x.jpg[/img]
North Korea is an absolute monarchy.
[QUOTE=Mabus;24479035]It will be shook alright technically Kim is not the leader, Sung is, and he is dead. They never let him go when he died, and im pretty sure they won't let Kim go without a decade of drama too.[/QUOTE] No, few North Koreans genuinely like him. They just pay lip service to him so they don't end up in front of a firing squad. [editline]02:42AM[/editline] [QUOTE=RBM11;24478925]I hope this regime falls apart when Kim dies.[/QUOTE] Good luck with that. My guess is that his son will just take over like Jong Il did when Il Sung died. Also, can't beleive this hasn't been posted yet. [img_thumb]http://img2.moonbuggy.org/imgstore/north-korea-is-best-korea.jpg[/img_thumb]
Homefront, anyone? Best case scenario: Kim dies, Un turns to the West Worst case: Kim dies, decides to go all out because hell, he's going anyhow, why not start WWIII while he's at it?
Kim's son went to school outside of North Korea, so it's likely that he's not quite as ignorant as his father. [editline]08:08PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Detective P;24481380]Homefront, anyone? Best case scenario: Kim dies, Un turns to the West Worst case: Kim dies, decides to go all out because hell, he's going anyhow, why not start WWIII while he's at it?[/QUOTE] I remember watching the trailer for homefront and thinking the same. The speech his son makes to the UN seems plausible enough.
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