# Praise for Kim Jong-il **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328 "2010-06-24T05:30:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/21 "2010-06-26T11:50:34Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > The ruling Burmese junta is every bit as evil as Kim but not the least bit entertaining. I dunno, **Sam** …ya gotta love that acronym: SLORC. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/22 "2010-06-27T04:10:42Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > I dunno, **Sam** …ya gotta love that acronym: SLORC. Alas! Slorc – the State Law and Order Restoration Council – was abolished 13 years ago. Now they’re the more mundane State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/23 "2010-06-27T04:26:50Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > … Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, … I felt in my heart that the Dear Leader would be a swallower and not a spitter. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/24 "2010-06-27T04:35:09Z")
Hey, let’s show some respect for the greatest golfer who ever lived. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/25 "2010-06-27T04:41:23Z")
There was the Great Leader, then the Dear Leader. Wonder what the next one will be. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/26 "2010-06-27T04:46:07Z")
He does have a great collection of Hummel figurines. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/27 "2010-06-27T04:52:03Z")
I predict the next one will claim to have invented the pizza roll, only one of which per day will be necessary to provide all the food required to keep a citizen fit. If they die on that ration, then they’re obviously weak minded anti-revolutionary traitors. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/28 "2010-06-27T05:03:20Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > There was the Great Leader, then the Dear Leader. Wonder what the next one will be. The Fearless Leader, unless some of the leadership used to watch _Rocky and Bullwinkle_. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/29 "2010-06-27T05:15:49Z")
I like it! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/30 "2010-06-27T16:50:04Z")
I think it might be something like the “Revered Leader”. Anyone want to start a pool? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/31 "2010-06-27T16:59:23Z")
Actually I think I read something on that a few months back where they were calling him “Brilliant Leader” or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/32 "2010-06-27T17:46:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Finland?!? Finland has always had it’s fair share of hardcore communists. We even had a bloody civil war between the bourgeoisie and communists in 1918. I vaguely recall a news story I read months ago that the committee mentioned in the OP’s link is sponsored by the North Korean embassy. Here’s a link to the [Finnish-Korean society](http://www.suomikorea.net/) and [The society for the study of the Juche idea](http://www.juche.vunet.org.cn/). [Here’s](http://www.hs.fi/nyt/artikkeli/Pohjois-Korealla+on+Suomessa+satoja+faneja/1135257455555) an article, with the headline _North-Korea has hundreds of fans in Finland_, where the chairman of the The society for the study of the Juche idea claims that Kim Jong-il has done more good than bad for North-Korean society. All these links are in Finnish only. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/33 "2010-06-27T18:58:47Z")
Well, my general theory is that you can find at least 1-2% of the population that will agree with or believe anything, no matter how damned stupid it is. So I’m never surprised to find organizations like that. [America’s Youth United Behind Juche](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201609645) apparently has 2 members and a description that says " In fact its really actually quite terrible". > **[The Juche Ideas Study Group](https://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2005/09/the_juche_ideas.html)** > > At Semiskinned, Rob Hinckley quotes a horrified reaction to the film "Team America, World Police" from a \[North\] Korean Friendship Association forum. Comrades! I am terrored! A film has just arrived on the markets of Cameroon, this film the... ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/34 "2010-06-27T22:05:14Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Alas! Slorc – the State Law and Order Restoration Council – was abolished 13 years ago. Now they’re the more mundane State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Curses! They must have realized how ridiculous it was to have a regime whose call letters sounded like a noise you’d make while lurching over the toilet to barf. _sigh_ > [@Chimera](#): > > [America’s Youth United Behind Juche](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201609645) apparently has 2 members and a description that says " In fact its really actually quite terrible". KFA (Korean Friendship Association) is also an interesting group. They’re the ones that run the official North Korea webpage last I heard. Yes, they have an American branch. Check out on their online forum. All kinds of lolz in there. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/35 "2010-06-28T20:54:56Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > From Wikipedia: **“Soviet records show that Kim Jong-il was born in the village of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk, in 1941, where his father, Kim Il-sung, commanded the 1st Battalion of the Soviet 88th Brigade, made up of Chinese and Korean exiles … Kim Jong-il’s official biography states that he was born in a secret military camp on Baekdu Mountain in Japanese-occupied Korea on 16 February 1942. Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.”** > > I also seem to recall that when Dad died, some mountain twisted itself around in grief. > > All I know is during times of trouble, I always ask myself: “What would Kim do?” I knew it! Show me a copy of a birth certificate Kim Jong-il, not some certificate of live birth or some such nonsense. You are not the rightful leader of the People’s Republic. You weren’t even born in North Korea! Where’s that Oily Taint chick to raise a ruckus! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328/36 "2010-06-28T20:58:35Z")
If only North Korea would take her off our hands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-for-kim-jong-il/544328.md?page=1)