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I also don't believe in celebrating the death of another human being, but good riddance! What an evil man! I wish the absolute best for the North Korean people. I think it will be very interesting to see how this plays out now.
Good riddance, but he has not really been in full control since his stroke in 2008. North Korea has a habit of causing a stir "somewhere else" when turmoil hits home. Wonder what Kim Jong-un will do now?
China needs to dispatch its army to NK within 24 hours just to protect them from invasion of south korean and U.S
I don't think that will happen unless the North Korean Government asks the Chinese to come in like they did during the Korean War. I can only think of two wars where the Chinese were aggressors dispatched by their own government. Viet Nam in the 1700's and Tibet in the 20th century. This does not include war lords' private wars or border skirmishes.
The Chinese manner of conquest has traditionally been through immigration as is happening today in some of the Russian provinces on the Sino-Russian border. The Chinese are pouring into this area as labourers because no Russians want to go to these outlying areas. The Chinese in Southeast Asia have often started as immigrant labourers and then set up businesses finally dominating the economics of many Southeast Asian countries like Malaya, Singapore etc.
I doubt anything good will really come out of his death. North Korea will continue to be ruled by his family members and/or friends and colleagues (sorry, comrades that is). Just like after Fidel's death, Cuba is now run by his brother and the other commies from the party. North Korea is probably the most depressing place in the world with the worst government (especially now that the Taliban is gone from Afghanistan) and some of the worst poverty.
Recently the North Korean government even protested a Christmas tree in the South that could be seen from around the border, it was a tree that a private church group wanted to put up. Maybe the thought of Santa Claus coming to town and knowing he's been naughty caused his heart attack?
I certainly hope that the next heir tosses aside the military guys who probably want nothing more than war, and fosters a peace with the South Koreans, pulls troops from the DMZ, opens up the country to honest competition and free market forces and destroys the horrible state planned economy, stops the torture of their own people, and admit to 50 years of torture, corruption, and a crushingly efficient peoples' personality cult.
Of course I can also hope for pigs to fly.
So I will bring down my hopes to more realistic ones ... I hope North Korea doesn't devolve into infighting and deaths of millions, as the army fights the Kims and loyalists for control of the country. Make no bones about it, the young Kim doesn't command respect in the army, and that is a bad thing in a dynastic dictatorship. Further, the people don't respect him yet, also a bad thing in a personality cult driven culture.
I hope my wishes of avoiding a massive uprising and millions dead isn't the same as wishing for pigs to fly...
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Why do Americans think the death of a tyrant will mean a happy ending? This is not a Hollywood movie. I really hope his son isn't just like his father, though. I guess it can't get much worse though, can it?
China needs to dispatch its army to NK within 24 hours just to protect them from invasion of south korean and U.S
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