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November 16, 2004

Kim Jong-Il's Portraits Vanishing From Pyongyang

What could this mean? Maybe nothing. But it sure seems like it could be something. Kim Jong deathly ill, maybe?

Captain's Quarters makes the catch:

The BBC speculates that Kim may have ordered the removal of the portraits in an attempt to reduce the country's focus on him, although in the past Kim has certainly promoted the personality cult purposefully. Others wonder if the change means that something has happened to Kim and Pyongyang might be keeping it quiet. The removals aren't happenstance; an unnamed diplomat told the Russian news service Itar-Tass that orders had been given to take the portraits down.

Thanks to Sharp as a Marble, who commits the greivous blog-sin of tipping another blogger to a catch before blogging it yourself.

He mentions his traffic is falling faster than a monkey on a surfboard. Hey, you're not the only one, Sharp as a Marble.

Can't we have a presidential election every couple of weeks?

Pretty funny-- he's got a "Glenndex" in his sidebar, tracking the Instapundit's uses of "Heh," "Indeed," and "Read the Whole Thing." So far today, "Heh" is winning by a nose. But "Indeed" is always a comer in the final furlong.


posted by Ace at 02:19 PM
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Maybe he got his feelings hurt from "Team America"?

Posted by: Chrees on November 16, 2004 02:28 PM

I heard he had them removed so he could replace them with photoshooped versions with his head on that picture of Cheney sitting on the tailgate.

Posted by: Bud Tugley on November 16, 2004 02:32 PM

It could be that Kim Jong-Il is losing his grip on power. This is a very interesting article from Der Spiegel about how Jong-Il's power isn't as absolute as it seems to outsiders.

Mentions some interesting things like speculation the huge railway explosion near the Chinese border was an assassination attempt on Kim, who was returning via railcar from a trip to China, and suspicions that Jong-Il may have assassinated his father Il-Sung Kim.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,325971,00.html

Posted by: Moonbat_One on November 16, 2004 02:48 PM

Ace--

Take it from someone who was best man at the wedding of one of the military's foremost North Korea experts: nobody effing knows what the hell goes on there.

In comparison to Kimology, Kremlinology was telegraphed like a Lindsay Lohan/Hillary Duff catfight.

One can only hope that Kim's falling out of favor with people whom he wouldn't want to upset (read: men with guns).

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on November 16, 2004 02:49 PM

The pictures are in Jimmy Carter's den next to his Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: Dittybopper on November 16, 2004 03:48 PM

Ahh, Hans Brix. Thanks for coming, Hans.

Maybe there was an accident with the shark tank.

Posted by: blaster on November 16, 2004 04:26 PM

Naahhh

He had a makeover and made a subtle change in his poufty-do (from a beehive to a bouffant). He wants to erase his old hair from the People's memory.

The new pics will be up everywhere next week.

Posted by: lauraw on November 16, 2004 04:40 PM

Wonder if this has something to do with it

Consort's death rocks Kim Jong-il
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11387512%255E2703,00.html

Posted by: Master of None on November 16, 2004 05:06 PM

"As Japanese envoys tried to persuade the North Koreans last week to rejoin multinational talks, Mr Kim's absence from the scene led to speculation a debilitating power struggle might have paralysed the ruling group.

This followed the death of Koh Young-hee, a dancer who had provided Mr Kim with an heir-apparent to the world's only communist dynasty.

"The loss of this woman was a blow," said a foreign diplomat. "

I think Koh Young-hee is Korean for Monika Lewinsky

Posted by: on November 16, 2004 05:08 PM

Good Lord, I just got the vapors reading that report.

If it's true this would indeed be the best November on record.

Posted by: H.D. Miller on November 16, 2004 09:12 PM

His consort died? He must be so ronery.

Posted by: Moonbat_One on November 16, 2004 09:51 PM

Hey Ace - maybe the NSA took your suggestion already about the megawatt laser you reported on and raised Kim Jong-Il's brain temp a few thousand degrees.

Who says the conservative blogosphere doesn't influence special ops?

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