North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Suffered Stroke

Fox News is reporting that the North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke on August 14 and may be wheel chair bound.

Sources tell FOX News that Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill’s emergency visit to Beijing last week was more to talk about how to approach North Korea in the event of Kim’s incapacitation, and less to talk about the reassembling of the Yongbyon nuclear facility.

 

A U.S. intelligence official told the Associated Press that there is reason to believe Kim is sick after he failed to show up at a North Korean national celebration on Tuesday. That official and another U.S. source spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

 

im has not been seen in public for a month and U.S. officials were closely watching Tuesday’s military parade for signs to the leader’s health or a shift in power. 

 

But Japan’s Kyodo news agency and Russia’s RIA-Novosti reported that the parade itself was toned down — lacking the usual massive displays of the army, navy and air force — and that Kim did not appear.

 

Kim has been absent from public view since mid-August. 

 

South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Tuesday that Kim collapsed on Aug. 22, citing an unnamed South Korean diplomat in Beijing. The diplomat got the information from a Chinese source, the paper said.

This is quite a development for those of us living in South Korea. Kim Jung Il’s regime is known for being brutal and cruel. His people have been forced to eat grass, tree bark and dirt to survive. Christians are brutally persecuted.

The question not answered is, what next? Will there be a political coup? Will Kim Jung Il’s son take over? Will North Korea attack South Korea? Will the Communist regime simply crumble from the inside out? We’re a little on edge here in the Republic of Korea.

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Comments

[Indigo Red]

If that proves to be true, it would explain the North's reversal of nuclear program dismanteling and the sudden return to paranoia.

[Amy Proctor]

My husband and I were talking about this very thing this morning. The mission of troops in South Korea is to contain North Korea and prevent and/or respond to an attack from Kim Jung Il. I was surprised at N. Korea's turn around, which happened right around the time Il was supposedly striken, um, ill. Anyway, I told Johnny this morning that I think it is true and this is why the reversal you talk about really occurred.

If Kim Jung Il is on his death bed or in some way capacitated, he needs to rule from a position of strength, not peace. He's probably also considering his legacy and post-him N. Korea.

These are all factoring in. Good observation, Indigo.

[Johnny]

In the nKorean regime, the worship of Kim Il Sung is the state religion (Juche). The Kims have co-opted the ancient Korean tradition of ancestor worship to posit Kim Il Sung as the 'eternal father' of Korea. In this doctrine, the mighty leader (su-ryong) is the head of the masses and posseses perfect knowledge of juche. In the doctrinal construct, the leader of Korea must be a descendant of the Su-Ryong, Kim Il Sung.

Yes, this is 1 million miles from Stalinist communism - the Koreans are famously pragmatic and supremely adaptive to the situation at hand. The question that needs to be answered is, "how many nKoreans will stick with Juche (also known in Korean as KimIlSungism) should Kim Jong Il die or the regime collapse?

I believe the level of nKorean indoctrination is unfathomable and that a nasty insurgency will follow (think Iraq). Kim Jong Il watches our military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan very closely and knows that our achilles heel is our stupidity when it comes to other cultures. Therefore, he has changed his information operations (propaganda) to inspire sKoreans to view the Americans as western interlopers (occupiers) interfering in the sacred march of history for the Korean nation.

This strategy is potentially very, very dangerous as he is correct, Americans are borderline stupid when it comes to cultural intelligence and the young generation on sKorea already see the American presence on the peninsula as the main barrier to unification (the stated goal of both governments).

The weakness of his strategy is that young Koreans are also gaga over western culture, including its less savory expressions, and are unlikely to accept any version of juche.

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