Kim Jong-Un named Global Statesman of the Year by Indonesia's Sukarno Center (military, leader)

[katzpaw]

Hurry up with that free trade agreement with our friend and ally Indonesia.

The Bali-based Sukarno Center will this year award its annual prize for global statesmanship to Kim Jong Un of North Korea, hailing him as a champion in the fight against neocolonialism and imperialism.

Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, a daughter of Indonesia’s founding president, after whom the award is named, made the announcement on Thursday following a meeting with Ri Jong Ryul, Pyongyang’s ambassador to Jakarta.

“We will give the award to President [sic] Kim Jong Un because he has been consistent in carrying out the ideals of the great leader, Kim Il Sung, which is to fight imperialism,” Rachmawati said.

Kim Jong Un Hailed as Global Statesman by Sukarno Center - The Jakarta Globe

[OwlAndSparrow]

Is this like Hitler winning Time Magazine's Man of the Year award?

Apparently not. Apparently this group actually thinks Kim is a good guy. Blech.


So, start a war. Get one regional military power on your side while the people you're trying to kill have a different, non-regional military power on their side. Fail to win the war. Repress your people for half a century, and be such a jerk to everyone that even your only ally starts to treat you like that crazy uncle everyone ignores at the family reunions when he starts going on about alien conspiracies and computer chips in his brain. Plug your eyes and ears as basically every other Communist country in the world modernizes at least a bit, opening up markets even if they remain authoritarian. Run your country mafia-style and kill your political opponents.

Win awards for your efforts.

Goodness, I played a game of Civ IV using this strategy, and it did not end well.