Kim Jong Un by a landslide

[tkotom]

Uh...

Haha.

 

[shunyata]

Of course it was rigged.

Even allowing for the obvious fact that Kim Jong-un was the only candidate and appearing even unenthusiastic to participate in the farce election would be risky for North Korean citizens, you have to consider the extent to which the DPRK lacks transport, infrastructure, media, etc. to organize even a shame vote. I could buy a high turnout in Pyongyang (maybe), but see it as unlikely in other towns/cities and especially in rural areas.

Ration hand out station doubles as voting booth! No vote, no rice.

 

[tkotom]

Kind of surprising that the people have tolerated this as long as they have. You would think they'd overthrow this regime by now.

The citizens can not trust anybody. That includes their own family.

They also don't have any means to really communicate and network. Take other nations like Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Ukraine where there have been popular uprisings, the state allows free usage of internet.

 

[evansusmc2]

No posts yet from anyone trying to say, "oh America is worse because bla bla bla" ?

Sherdog has improved!

 

[ocfightfan]

He landed a man on the sun, for God's sake. He has my vote.

They went at night when it was cooler.

 

[Xplosives]

If there ever was a country in need of Revolution. Even the toppled regimes of the Arab Spring had more freedom.

 

[AgentOrange24]

Frontline on PBS has a couple good ones. They did one recently about children there who escape, and how NK is trying to keep media out of the country, but people are smuggling in flash drives and stuff like that.

There was a great one that someone posted here once but I haven't had any luck finding it. I think it was only on the web. These guys basically get to take a very guided tour of NK, they pull out all the stops for them to show them what a great place it is - really bizarre.

Vice guide.

 

[Marsupial]

Even allowing for the obvious fact that Kim Jong-un was the only candidate and appearing even unenthusiastic to participate in the farce election would be risky for North Korean citizens, you have to consider the extent to which the DPRK lacks transport, infrastructure, media, etc. to organize even a shame vote.

Should read "sham vote".

Would edit but my error has already been quoted above.

 

[Marsupial]

Funny thing (one of them, anyway) is: Kim Jong Un wasn't Dad's first choice.

the original heir-apparent, whose name eludes me at the moment, was a bit of a party animal (and I don't mean Worker's Party [*rimshot* :-D ] ) fell out of favor after stepping on his own dick a few times in ways Kim Jong Il found embarassing. The most infamous faux pas (as far as most anyone outside DPRK knows) took place when he got nabbed at Narita Airport in Japan trying to enter the country (I think he had some friends with him) under an assumed name with a hilariously-bad forged passport. He was briefly detained and questioned by Japanese authorities, then turned over to North Korean officials.

The objective of this covert mission: visit Tokyo Disneyland.

Tragic, really. I mean, I've been to Tokyo Disneyland; it's *okay,* but it ain't all that and a jar of kimchi. Compared to the one in Anaheim, anyway.

I think the highlight was making out/copping a few feels on my Japanese girlfriend on the "Haunted Mansion" ride.

Kim Jong-nam.

Kim Jong-il's eldest son, and half-brother to Kim Jong-un (different mothers).

I believe this picture was taken in Macau, where he has been frequently spotted in the past decade or so. He was reported to live fairly openly and pass his time gambling and spending lavishly, keeping a wife, kids and mistress decked out in designer gear (not sure to what extent this is simply scurrilous tabloid bullshit). However, he's apparently moving around quite a bit in East Asia, reportedly in Singapore. The rumour is he fears assassination from Kim Jong-un as he has made candid, critical comments about the DPRK to different media outlets (he's said to be quite approachable, happily identifying himself to both inquistive journalists and South Korean tourists).

He's also said to have penned a letter to a Tokyo newspaper where he elaborated on his being passed over as heir to North Korean leadership. He claims the education he received in Switzerland convinced him that North Korea was badly in need of political and economic reform and the opening of its market. His father feared he had "turned into a capitalist", and this is also contributed heavily to him falling out of favour.

 

[Marsupial]

There is also a third son, Kim Jong-cheol. He's the older brother of Kim Jong-un and younger half-brother of Kim Jong-nam.

Little is known about him and the only info ever offered as to why he was also passed over for leadership comes from a Japanese sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, who claims he was employed by Kim Jong-il as a personal chef for many years. (The veracity of Fujimoto's position, if not all of his claims, have been backed up by leaked US diplomatic cables).

Fujimoto says that Kim Jong-cheol was considered too effeminate and unsuitable for leadership by his father, "like a little girl", he reported Kim Jong-il as saying. Kim Jong-cheol was said to have been sighted attending an Eric Clapton concert in Singapore in 2011.

(All the stuff about Kim Jong-il loving Hennessy cognac and having a troupe of naked women dance for and bathe him pretty much originates from Kenji Fujimoto as well.)

In addition, Kim Jong-il is known to have had two daughters. Kim Sul-song is the eldest child of Kim Jong-il, the only child of his marriage to his first wife and thus half-sister to every other child of the late Dear Leader (Kim Jong-nam's mother was Kim Jong-il's mistress). Kim Yo-jong is the youngest child of Kim Jong-il, younger sister of Jong-cheol and Jong-un.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Kim Jong Un acts like a guy who has a real small peen. Prob a micro penis..

That's what all his showboating is about, all because he isn't well endowed.

 

[AstoriaSean]

Of Course everyone voted for him. Anyone who thinks about voting for someone gets paraded aroung the capital torn up like the Romans treated the Christians.

 

[Sturm]

Why can't Canada have a leader as Great as Kim Jong Un ???

I'd take the fat korean over Harper.