On one hand, the North Korean propaganda machine portrays him as the "greatest statesman of the 20th century".
Loyal communists are told his birth was "foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens".
But I find this to just be absolute hogwash and in my language, it's also known as 'bullshit'.
On the other hand, South Korea provides a stream of bizarre anecdotes painting a picture of one of history's most deranged leaders.
Certainly the South has more credibility, don't they?
Kim Jong-il, or "Dear Leader", is officially head of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea.
A hard-drinking 64-year-old playboy, he runs the world's most isolationist and centrally controlled nation, often called the "Hermit Kingdom".
For most of his life he lived in the shadow of his father, Kim Il-sung, the first communist dictator of North Korea.
Kim Il-sung, the so-called "Great Leader", died suspiciously in 1994. His son refused to allow doctors into his room after his death (Hmm, I wonder why..Don't you?).
Two of the five helicopters assigned to fly the corpse to Pyongyang crashed, killing the doctors and bodyguards on board.
In his formative years Kim Jong-il is said to have been behind a number of terrorist plots in Burma and the shooting down of a South Korean airline in 1987, which killed all 115 people on board. Even though it is said, I still think we're looking at a maniacal disillusioned demon who has virtually been heralded as a deity by his political minions.
"Well before assuming power, Kim acquired an extraordinary reputation for drunkenness, sexual depravity and extreme self-indulgence. In 1997, after three years of "mourning", Kim succeeded his father -- the first dynastic succession of a communist regime. Analysts say North Korea's political system has become even more autocratic under Kim Jong-il.
He is said to demand absolute obedience, and personally directs minute details of administration, including the size of houses for party secretaries. (He ain't getting a rat's ass from me, that's for sure.)
The Stalinist country is said to have more than one million troops -- the world's fifth-largest army -- and the world's biggest concentration camps.
It bans all foreign books, music and films. And it spends about 25 per cent of its gross national product on defence." QUOTE- The Herald Sun.
During the late 1990s, the Dear Leader's central control style of running the country resulted in extraordinary famine. Up to a million citizens perished from hunger.
The World Food Program and UN Children's Fund produced a report claiming chronic malnutrition had left 42 per cent of North Korean children physically stunted and in danger of intellectual impairment.
In 1998, Kim Jong-il signed a revised North Korean constitution, declaring him "President for eternity". Oh please..SOMEONE...just SHOOT HIM.
The CIA says he has more than $5 billion in Swiss bank accounts, six villas in Europe, one in Russia and one in China.
But Kim has a morbid fear of flying, preferring to travel in his armoured private train.
Now what we all can do is infiltrate his love shack of debouchery, otherwise known as the presidential palace, and kidnap him in his sleep before airlifting him up and away while dangling him from a helicopter.
He is a short man (160cm) but uses platform shoes to make him appear taller, and is extremely vain. He has been married three times, with three sons from different wives and one daughter. But he also has several mistresses, and is reputed to have fathered 13 children outside his marriages. Why is it that all the ugly men get laid? 16 possible children in total..is there any reason why his hair's always standing?
A film buff, Kim Jong-il has a collection of 20,000 videos. But honestly..who cares about his film collection?
What matters to me is that he has a Russified name! Yuri Irsenovich Kim is the name and boy, does it piss me off to know that the Cyrillic language I so love has been tainted by this twat's presence.
Of all the little bits of information I have read, David Letterman tops my list with this excerpt,
"On The Late Show with David Letterman, Letterman frequently mentions Kim Jong-il's "brother", Menta Lee-il. In July 2006, announcing that Jong-il had just been married (to his longtime secretary, Kim Ok, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency; no confirmation was forthcoming as of early August), Letterman said Jong-il "tried to consummate his marriage, and his wife became Physic Lee-il." Two nights earlier, he noted that Jong-il's "honeymoon's going well; last night, he successfully test-fired a short-range missile."
Of course, if you'd like to know more about our 'Dear Leader', feel free to ravage the page that Wikipedia has to offer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_jong-il The North Korean dictator certainly is queer.
Essentially, when Kim is compared to one such George W. Bush, it provokes thought on who really is any better. Perhaps that will go down as the next morsel for discussion in my next entry.
