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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rictor on November 19, 2004, 08:42:41 pm
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http://washingtontimes.com/world/20041117-115542-9445r.htm
Kind of newsworthy, since North Korea is one of the world's only remaining cults of personality.
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered the removal of his portrait from display throughout the Stalinist state, signaling a scaling back of the decades-old adulation of the supreme ruler, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported yesterday.
The order to take down portraits was issued three weeks ago by Mr. Kim himself, who was concerned that he "has been lifted too high," the agency said.
Also yesterday, North Korea's official press dropped the glorifying description of "dear leader" for Mr. Kim, Kyodo News Service reported, citing the Japanese monitoring agency Radiopress.
Whatever the cause, its a step in the right direction, though only a symbolic one.
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He'll probably just have them replaced with statues or something
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:doubt:
Well that's interesting...
at least there's no Kim Jong-iligrad yet...
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maybe he watched Team America and saw what they thought of him... :nervous: :lol:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4024523.stm
[q]North Korea has denied that portraits of its leader, Kim Jong-il, have been taken down, calling such reports a US plot to overthrow its government.
The denial was reported by Chinese news agency Xinhua - one of the few foreign outlets working in Pyongyang.
Last week, western diplomats said some portraits had been removed from public places in recent months.
But a North Korean official quoted by Xinhua said the reports were "groundless fabrication".
"It didn't happen before, and will never happen," foreign ministry official Ri Gyong-son, was quoted as saying.
"The words are an intrigue that the United States and its attaching countries want to overthrow the DPRK [North Korea].
"General Kim Jong-il is the fate of the Korean people and the DPRK's socialism. It is unimaginable that DPRK people and army can separate their fates from Kim Jong-il.
"It is nothing but stupid and ridiculous acts just like trying to remove the sun from the sky."
The reports that portraits of Mr Kim had been taken down added to speculation that the North Korean leader was scaling back on the cult of personality that surrounds him.
Portraits of Mr Kim and his father, Kim Il-sung, are ubiquitous in North Korea, where they symbolise the ruling party's grip over every aspect of peoples' lives.
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If it is an American plot it's a really crap one isn't it? :D
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That's what happens when you recruit Lawrence Llewyn-Bowen as an undercover agent.
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"General Kim Jong-il is the fate of the Korean people and the DPRK's socialism. It is unimaginable that DPRK people and army can separate their fates from Kim Jong-il."
That's a dictatorship for you. :p
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[q]If it is an American plot it's a really crap one isn't it? [/q]
They have good days, they have bad days, what the hell maybe the guy in charge of this one had a hangover.
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Originally posted by Splinter
maybe he watched Team America and saw what they thought of him... :nervous: :lol:
I don't think he exactly needed TA to get our opinion on him :doubt:
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I hear Kim Jong-Il's whore died
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He's just so lonely.