Kim Il Topcat No Copycats

Usually when a regime is on its last legs, it often exhibits ever more bizarre behaviour at the top .... however there are occasionally some states for whom this golden rule doesn't seem to apply.

What's In A Name?

One such is of course the 'Hermit Kingdom', aka the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea', where normal behaviour and rules seem to hold no power.

Duck Ass Dynasty

When I was a lad, the local barbers used to have posters up advertising the cuts available .... these included an old Brylcreem poster with an ex-footballer / cricketer (who I didn't know) called Denis Compton ... 

 

Denis Compton - Brylcreem

 

.... you could point at him and get the same hair cut (and presumably use the same Brylcreem).

Deification and Demigod

Its not often we see the deification of a living Demigod anymore. Time was when the world was full of living Demigods such as the Roman emperors (from the death of Augustus Caesar onwards) and no doubt the various potentates in Persia, India, China and other of the Old Empires will have had their own living gods as well.

But they have kind of died out and therefore we should be glad to have taken this last chance in maybe 50 yrs or so, to see Kim Jong-un, the latest in a line of Demigod rulers to be inaugurated in Pyongyang North Korea.

Kim Jong-un - chubby Demigod

Of course, the inauguration of a Demigod requires a lot of pageantry, but hereditary 'communist' dicatators are always big on that ......

North Korea - Big On Heroic Parades - Poor on Bread and Rice.

.... its Bread and Rice that they struggle to provide.

North Korean Portends

I have been following events in North Korea with some interest .... after all the 'Demigods' that are the royal ruling family of the Communist, Democratic Republic of North Korea, are a rarity in the world.  

So after all the talk of 'portends' on the death of one heredity ruler and succession of another, it was with some glee that my attention was caught by news that the North Koreans have apparently recruited giants into their armed forces ....

One Big Korean

Sadly all the speculation is that this isn't a fake, but is in fact the 7’ 8” tall North Korean basketball star Ri Myung Hun.

Demigod Kim Jong-il

Whenever any Demigod passes away there are strange portends and phenomena., And so its with no surprise that the reports from the mad house that is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka North Korea (why are states that call themselves 'Democratic' invariably not?), are claiming that the very heavens are in mourning for the departure of mini me tyrant Kim Jong-il.

• State TV reported that ice cracked on the famous lake Chon "so loud, it seemed to shake the Heavens and the Earth".
  A snowstorm hit as Mr Kim died.
• Following the storm's sudden end at dawn, a message was seen carved in to the rock - "Mount Paektu, holy mountain of revolution. Kim Jong-il" - it glowed brightly and there until sunset .... its gone now if you thinking of going to see this phenomena.
• On the same say, a Manchurian crane also apparently adopted a posture of grief at a statue of the late leader's father in the northern city of Hamhung.

Demigod Kim Jong-il

Now all this heavenly activity for the death of an aetheist heredity communist leader shouldn't come as a surprise, when you consider that according to his official biographers, his birth at Baekdu Mountain was 'foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain, and a new star in the very heavens' ... so he was hardly going to pass away quietly either.

He now presumably joins his god like father Kim Il-sung in ruling the very heavens. The designated god heir and youngest son, Kim Jong-un, is already being called the "Great Successor" and they are now being told that the junior Kim is "a great person born of heaven on (sacred) Mount Paektu" ..... another fifty years of being ruled by a god must be daunting.