Sunday, December 18, 2011

North Korea's Kim Jong Il reported Dead, age 70.

Via Bloomberg:

Kim Jong Il, the second-generation North Korean dictator who defied global condemnation to build nuclear weapons while his people starved, has died, state media reported. A government statement called on North Koreans to “loyally follow” his son, Kim Jong Un.

Kim, 70, died on Dec. 17 of exhaustion brought on by a sudden illness while on a domestic train trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said. Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports.


We'll just have to see how Kim Jung-Un, his successor, turns out.  You can't say he had a terribly good role model in his old man.

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