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Kim Jong-Un's North Korea - Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!

Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:41 AM EST
kim, world-news, jong-uns
By iqbal.latif

In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo Kim Jong Un, right, along with his father and North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, left, attends during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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In the eyes of 'The Big Brother:'

 

 ''All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.''  

 

North Koreans are mass victim of the Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome! Definitely, all this public expression of grief and howling cannot be made up. 99.99999999 percent are definitely weeping and uncontrollably lamenting!

 

Their Messiah has died, the captives are without the surety of the captor! North Korean leader Kim Jong Il remained securely in power, he inherited power from his father in 1994, and led his nation through a distressing regime of mass starvation. Kim was  the last survivor of a Cold War-era. Kim Jong-Un is tipped to be North Korea's next leader and propel the Kim dynasty into a third generation is even more of an enigma than his mercurial father Kim Jong-Il.  Kim Jong-Un's life is shrouded in mystery, but in recent years he has been pushed to the forefront as his father apparently speeded up plans for the nation's second dynastic succession, after suffering a stroke in August 2008. In September 2010 the son was made a four-star general and given senior ruling party posts, despite his lack of any military experience.

 

Kim Jong-Il was a perfect example of the kind of leadership and society that 99% and 1 % debate wants to create. A mass equalizer of people talents like Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin and many others. The 99%-1% debaters and well-wishers are right now looking into the prospects; as they look into the abyss.  

 

North Korean state media on Monday urged people to pledge allegiance to Kim's youngest son and heir apparent Kim Jong-Un, aged in his late 20s, after the stunning announcement that his father had died on Saturday. North Korea's news agency reported that he had died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday after having a heart attack on a train, adding that he had been patient of cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases for a stretched period. The pictures of North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il are surprising some political  pundits, are they stage managed or real display of mass grief. If so why do people are grieving so much for a man who harnessed them on a leash.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWN6Qj98Iw

 

Credit goes to Kim Jong-il to create perfect equality  of mass dearth and deficiency. On the Gini coefficient scale which is a measure of the inequality of a distribution, where a value of 0 expressing perfect equality where everyone has equal shares of income and a value of 1 expresses maximal inequality where only one person has all the income he created a perfect 0. A really100 percent equal society, within 24,346,229 North Koreans there was no 99 percent and 1 %, there were 99.99999999 who were equal and 100 ruling families with his on the top the most unequal plus some nukes. His society is a forerunner for all those egalitarian pundits who think forced parity will result in new heavens on earth.

 

Many people have an excellent idea of what Stockholm syndrome is about. The origin of the term is derived from an incident in 1973, two men entered the Kreditbanken bank in Stockholm, Sweden, intending to rob it. When police entered the bank, the robbers shot them, and a hostage situation ensued. The robbers held four people at gunpoint for six days, locked in a bank vault, even strapped with explosives and strained to put nooses around their own necks. The police rescue attempt were resisted by  the hostages, the hostages fought the police, defending their captors and blaming the police.

 

In order for Stockholm syndrome to occur in any given situation, at least three traits must be present:

A severely uneven power relationship in which the captor dictates what the prisoner can and cannot do.

The threat of death or physical injury to the prisoner at the hands of the captor.

A self-preservation instinct on the part of the prisoner.

 

One of the freed hostages set up a fund to cover the hostage-takers' legal defence fees. Thus "Stockholm syndrome" was born, and psychologists everywhere had a name for this classic captor-prisoner phenomenon. North Korean dictator ticked all the boxes highlighted above on mass level.

 

North Koreans were slaves not partners in the government; the dictator dictated his terms and they suffered from unparalleled state scrutiny, their livelihood and lives depended on his good will, in turn the North Koreans considered him as their saviour. No food, no entrepreneurship but all total egalitarianism based on very little to go around, a whole nation became a mass victim of the Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome.

 

The King is dead. Long live the King. 

 

 

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sam6566

Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome, wow, what a perfect way of describing the North Koreans' grief.

But the hysterical and delirious sobbing is so overtly dramatic that one can't shake off the nagging feeling that the whole thing is mass-staged. Or the N. Koreans could be lamenting the incoming enigma that Kim Jong-il's personal chef described as being a "chip off the old block", who apparently shares the same traits and personality as his tyrannical father (Evil begets evil?). I hope Kim Jong-un's Swiss education and multi-linguistic skills come into play to save the day and help bring North Korea out of its isolation and misery. Its people have been brutally cast behind an iron veil long enough to suffer at the hands of this cruel generation of dictators. Imagine in this modern age, televisions telecast only one local channel showing hum-ho factory visits and other facilities, radio plays only 2 N. Korean stations blocking every other relay, and internet is banned. All that was rammed down people's throats were absurd myths, some of which are part of the official North Korean literature! I was incredulous when I read some of the "facts" that were popularized.

Ike, what is your take on North Korea, given your boundless knowledge of global history?

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:15 AM EST
iqbal.latif

Ike, what is your take on North Korea



North Korea and IRI are a tale of classic Orwellian society i.e. ''Big Brother is watching you.''

'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.'

Both will collapse like house of cards.

  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:30 PM EST
Mitsy-475766

He was a dictator from what I've read about him. Not deserving of even one tear. I'm glad he's dead & gone from his reign of terror.

  • 4 votes
#1.2 - Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:18 AM EST
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sam6566

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:55 AM EST
Edorxxiivv

It's a re-enforcing mass delusion.
The evangelical for profit preachers are all great at creating the same effect right here.
It's the scope that is amazing when seen on video.
Let's hope a part of the population is hiding indoors and immune to the bs.

  • 5 votes
Reply#3 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:12 AM EST
iqbal.latif

@It's a re-enforcing mass delusion.

''What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? '' Orwellian logic

  • 4 votes
#3.1 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:58 PM EST
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peapod

Great article! Interesting to read and impeccable analysis.

  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:40 AM EST
iqbal.latif

In the eyes of 'The Big Brother:'

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  • 5 votes
#4.1 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:37 PM EST
V.I. Ulyanov

I would disagree with you except I have been in Room 102; now I know you are correct.

However, Orwell's societies managed to exist because of the triad of powers, not in spite of them. NK has long out lived expectations; I expect it to go on doing what it wants to do.

  • 3 votes
#4.2 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:00 PM EST
nahid aktar

Agreed, honestly gobsmacked when I see Gini=0, 99 and 1% expectations and North Korean comparison with Stockholm Syndrome and Orwellian ' Big Brother:' ''All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.''

All this answered for me a lot of questions, imaginative and the preeminent scrutiny so far on North Korea on the net. Thank you Ike.

  • 4 votes
#4.3 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:53 PM EST
The "warrior" of islam

Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome- Great analogy

  • 3 votes
#4.4 - Sat Jan 7, 2012 11:17 AM EST
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V.I. Ulyanov

Great Successor Kim Jong Un is awaiting congratulations, apologies, and gifts of appeasement from President of USA

  • 3 votes
Reply#5 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:57 PM EST
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V.I. Ulyanov

What should the world expect from young Kim? For starters, he should be viewed as the typical spoiled brat narcissist, and we should not be surprised if he acts as one.

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Reply#6 - Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:10 PM EST
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