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2011-12-19 China-Japan-Koreas
N Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies
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Posted by Free Radical 2011-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 OK, what's next - Who will be Fearless Leader?
Posted by OldSpook 2011-12-19 00:31||   2011-12-19 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 More from HuffPost.
Posted by tipper 2011-12-19 01:30||   2011-12-19 01:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Kim Jong Un is the real question mark. At 29, he is not as integrated into the power hierarchy as his father was (Kim Jong Il was in his 50's when he took power). This raises the question: will he feel the need to demonstrate his power so that he can get "credibility" with the old guard, by way of shelling an island, or sinking another patrol boat, or something worse? That's the big concern.
Posted by OldSpook 2011-12-19 01:39||   2011-12-19 01:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Top 10 Crazy Facts About Kim Jong Il
Posted by tipper 2011-12-19 02:29||   2011-12-19 02:29|| Front Page Top

#5 He's moved on from Kim Jong-il to Kim Jong-dead.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2011-12-19 04:46||   2011-12-19 04:46|| Front Page Top

#6 It's unfortunate that he didn't die swinging from a lamp-post like he deserved. Still, a dead tyrant is a good tyrant.
Posted by Mike 2011-12-19 06:44||   2011-12-19 06:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Be a laugh if they ate him.
Posted by Grunter 2011-12-19 07:29||   2011-12-19 07:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Soylent Red?
Posted by P2Kontheroad 2011-12-19 08:55||   2011-12-19 08:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Good riddance
Posted by DarthVader 2011-12-19 09:51||   2011-12-19 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm distressed over the hundreds of Kimmie jokes I've saved up for a special occasion that I can't use anymore.

Did he really wear 4-inch platform shoes?

Even at $700 a bottle, $800,000 a year for cognac is a lot of boozing it up. You don't suppose some of his problems were alcoholism related dementia or just plain nuttiness? AND if he drank that much they won't have to embalm him.

Is it possible that a revolution could occur in the vacuum and we can be rid of this cancerous blot on civilization?
Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-12-19 12:25||   2011-12-19 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Obviously the escape hatch on the tiny rocket-ship didn't work. (Kudo's to those who get that)
Posted by Charles 2011-12-19 14:12||   2011-12-19 14:12|| Front Page Top

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