September 14, 2008- The End Is Near

   The title of today's column has been a long-standing  joke in America, especially with cartonists and the like. Everyone has seen one carton or another that shows some dude walking around with one of those sandwich board signs on that says "The End Is Near" while he is going off about imminent catastrophe. There really are such people around, just going into the downtown area of any major city shows you that, fuckers that are all hung up about the end of the world, which they always say is coming  really soon, ususaly telling you to accept Jesus into your life so that you don't end up on the wrong end once the whole world ends, and since that is going to be soon, you had better do that right here and right now, with them as your guide. Hardly anyone even pays attention to these screwballs much except for someone that is every bit as fucked up as they are. That's because the end that these zealots are always screaming about never comes as soon as they say, in fact, it never comes at all and surely won't come for a very long time to come yet. However, that only applies to the world at large, all of humanity if you will. If you break it down into smaller pieces, you can see that the end is near in one of these pieces or another, like if you take it country by country. For most countries outside of Iraq , the end is not near at all, but for one society on the face of the earth, it seems that any zealots that was wearing a sandwich board and saying that the end was near would be correct because there, the end is as near as the shouting hysterics say. I speak of North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom, the most closed society on earth, whatever the fuck you want to call it, none of that matters much now, because soon, you'll be calling North Korea history, for the end is near for that country. The reason that it is near is because the little cocksucker that runs North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, is not doing so well right now, in fact, the dude is fucked up pretty badly. It seems that he keeled over about a month ago at some place or another, and the reason that he did keel seems to be because he had a stroke of some kind. As always, detalis are sketcky concerning that asswipe, but word got out that a team of foreign surgeons had to perform some kind of brain surgery on the little dick because the stroke was that bad. At first, North Korea denied that anything was wrong with him, but when the fucker did not show up last Tuesday to prteside over the ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of that sorry state, everyone knew that he had to be fucked up badly. Otherwise, there was no way that he was about to miss a national party that was sure to center around him, wher he could score all the pussy and booze and dope that he wanted, and get on worldwide TV to boot due to the number of the anniversary. He never had missed an opportunity to do that before, and a 60th birthday party only comes around once, so if he was a no-show, he had to be in bad shape. Since then, North Korea has grudgingly started to admit that the little pussy did suffer a stroke, but not as bad of a one as people thought, that he was not in that bad of shape, he just was not up to going to the 60th anniversary party. The latest is that Kim Jong-Il can brush his teeth now and speak clearly, and people are wondering when we shall see his sorry ass in public again, some say in a few days, some say  next month. However, there are those that doubt whether we wil ever see Kim Jong-Il again, if he is far worse shape than anyone lets on and is about ready to join his late old man Kim Il-Sung down in the firepits of hell by croaking off. The speculation on that one is far more than what if he is OK, because many wonder what would be next for not only North Korea, but all of Asia and the rest of the world if that  asshole died.

   Many are freaking over that very prospect because they see that Kim Jong-Il has named no successor, like how his old man named him successor before he died, and they wonder what the fuck will happen if Kim Jong-Il croaks off. They worry mainly because that country is the most heavily militarized society on the face of the earth, they have a very massive and strong army, and worse than that even, they have nuclear bombs. No one knows for sure if they have one of these or if they have fifty and they worry that if Kim Jong-Il buys the farm now, that they'll be up for grabs as the main prizes in a major power struggle within North Korea. They have to worry about this because North Korea is the prime example of a cult of personality at work, that shit is Kim Jong-Il's specialty, it was how he got his old man to go from ignoring his bastard ass totally in favor of his half-brother as successor to seeing that half-brother kicked to the curb and Kim Jong-Il named as successor, something that he took advantage of in 1994 when the old man croaked and he then became leader of North Korea. What Kim Jong-Il did was to use his skills as a film student to create a massive cult of personality around his old man, turing that shithead into a demigod in the minds of the North Korean people, and that was a great vehicle for Kim Il-Sung to militarize the country and start nuclear weapon programs and the like, plus, it stroked the insatiable ego that every tyrant has. When Kim Il-Sung died in 1994, Kim Jong-Il then turned the propaganda machine on himself and made himself the center of that cult of personality, even more so than his old man, and that has continued to this day. Everything in that wretched society revolves around that little asshole, he has made himsellf into a demigod even more so than the old man in many ways. So that is why many are freaking now that he is ailing, because they have no idea what weill happen to a society that is totally centered aroundf one man when that man finally dies. Kim Jong-Il has not bothered to use his skills to create a cult of personality around any of his sons, so they are not considered holy like he and his old man are. That is why many worry about a power struggle because you have two half brother bastard sons of  Kim Jong-Il that could very well vie for power and those nuclear weapons. There are also cousins of his from his old lady's side of the family that would very much like to take over the country and could also get in the mix when he dies. Plus, the fact is that no one really knows what goes on for sure in that country, so there could also be all sorts of other militias and groups that would love to grab the reins of power in Pyongyang, making it a regular battle royal over there. The key is whoever grabs control of the military wins the prizes, but since the military is so brainwashed towards this one guy, they are told to think of him as a father figure, no one knows who they would listen to when Kim Jong-Il dies, and they are the wild card in all of this. North Korea is a military state, so the army is the one that shall run things after he dies, but there is no clear plan as to who the army is to answer to then and there are sure to be numerous claimants to that title when that happens. Now that it looks like it is going to happen before the year is out, people are understandably nervous, because even though it is a failed state, North Korea is still a hell of a big prize for someone to end up with, and it is very vimportant as to who ends up with it.

   Of course, the little shit Kim Jong-Il could have made this all a moot point by doing just what his old man did back in the day, that is, put a succession plan in place so that when he dies, there is none of this bullshit that many fear. His old man did that because he wanted North Korea to be the first dictatorial Communist state to pass from one generation of a family to the next, defying everything that the West always said about Communism, how it could not be sustained from one generation to another and so forth. Kim Il-Sung made sure that he had a plan in place, and he had that plan in place for a very long time too, the only thing that changed was which one of his bastard sons was put in the top spot. It is not like Kim Jong-Il is some kind of lifelong bachelor that never had kids, he has at least two sons that he could do the same to, put them in line so that when he dies, there would be another clean succession, again defying the West and all others that hated him. There has been ample reason to do that as this decade has gone on too, because Kim Jong-Il has got a lot of problems of his own that were going to start affecting his ability to rule someday, and that bill looks like it is coming due now. To start with, he is 66 years old, not exactly a spring chicken, and his old man had his succession plan in place long before he got to that age. Another factor is the way that Kim Jong-Il lives, which is nothinhg like the way that his old man lived, Kim Jong-Il is someone that thinks he is some kind of fucking rockstar, and lives the part. The dude drinks like a rockstar, drinks the finest booze by the fucking case, and he also likes the company of loose, young chicks like any rockstar worth his salt does too. He also has a big-time drug problem, it is known that he is heavily into speed and has been for a long time. He also has access to a lot of pure heroin, since he starves his people and steals arable land so that he can grow opium to make into heroin and then sell it worldwide, he has access to a lot of that shit too. No one knows if he has started sampling his own product yet, but with most massive heroin dealers, it is just a matter of time befire they get curious as to what the fuss is all about that is making them so rich and decide to try some smack themselves and then get their asses hooked worse than any customers that they have. Since Kim Jong-Il has a documented history of both serious alcoholism and drug abuse, it would not be a shock if he started sampling some of his own wares by now. Add to that the fact that he is known to have diabetes and other medical problems, and it would seem to make sense that the dude would have put a succession plan into place by now, yet he has not done so. Even though North Korea is a closed society, it is known that he has not because if he had, one of the sons would have been elevated into the cult of  personality now, and neither of them have been, it is still just all about their old man, and not them. Of course, what has happened may have scared Kim Jong-Il into starting to get that plan together, but that is highly unlikely for the simple reason that it is too late for that shit by now, the time to get that plan together was before you keeled over and had to have brain surgery, not afterwards. Besides, if his brain has been damaged by the stroke like brains are most of the time, he could not put something like that together, and he is not known to have any right hand men that do his dirty work for him, so the fact is that Kim Jong-Il just has never bothered to put a succession plan into place, and that is becoming an issue very quickly now. That makes one wonder why the fuck he did do like his old man did and make a plan, because if it worked once, there's a good chance that it would work again so why he he not done that?

   The reason is that Kim Jong-Il has never given a fuck about anything other than himself, and he is not about to start now. He does not care about North Korea carrying on after he dies, he would rather not have that happen so that he could go down in the record books as the last leader of that country. He also knows that he has made such a fucking mess of things there that the country cannot carry on much longer anyway, so anyone that he handed it would be be getting set up for sure failure. However, the main reason for that attitude is the fact that Kim Jong-Il has done some serious shit to the people in his country over the  years, and he does not want any of that coming to light while he is alive. It has become clear to him that he really does not have any allies left oin the world, that everyone wants his sorry ass gone so that Korea can be reunited and become a Japan-style economic power, and he does not want that to happen while he is alive so he is taking matters into his own hands now. He knows that he is going to be forced out of there soon and he also knows that he sits there and waits for that to hapen, that he'll be in some serious trouble when people get a look behind the curtain of North Korea and see what it is has really been. The world is sure to be outraged by when they find, horrors on a scale probably not seen since the days of the Third Reich, horrors that the little prick perpetrated on his own people for no good reason at all. So that would mean that they would want to see Kim Jong-Il brought to trial, Saddam style, and that is the last thing that guy wants, so he has decided that he is going to check out permanently and join the old man down in hell before they come to get him and he suffers a Saddam style fate. So it seems that he has decided that he wants to die by overdose and that is almost certainly what caused that stroke that he had last month. He has probably been hitting the speed and the booze way more heavily than ever and got it to the point where he had that stroke. But it seems that he has come down enough so that he can brush his teeth and shit, so he obviously has to try again when he gets out of the hospital, proabably before even. That is why the end is near in North Korea, because that little jagoff has decided that he would rather overdose than face the music when his time was deemed up, so he sees no reason to appojnt a successor, since there is not going to be shit to succeeed to anyway. His sons are not that big of a deal in North Korea, so they are not really in the shit that the old man does, killing people and starving them and such, so they cannot be held responsible for what he has done, and are able to go on living their lives in some way or another. If he says that one of them is the one that will take over when he dies, that son would become the scapegoat for the outraged world and maybe have to go the Saddam route. Kim Jong-Il does not want to see that happen simply because his name will be thrown into it, and he does not wnat any sissyboy sons of his selling him out to save himself and shit. So if he keeps them out of things, they are not going to have to worry about going that route when he dies. As to who would take over upon his death, Kim Jong-Il could care less about that, he sees that as a final way of fucking the world over, because if that free-for-all does erupt, it is going to be a very bad scene, and Kim Jong-Il will be laughing down there at Lucifer's side because all that little motherfucker has ever done is cause the world and civilization trouble and lots of it too, and that is exactly what he wants his imminent death to do as well.

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