# Thanks for the timing, Kim Jong-Il **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740 "2011-12-19T15:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/21 "2011-12-19T20:24:31Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > No offense, but I’ve reported the thread for a move to MPSIMS. > [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](#): > > None taken. It probably belongs there. [moderating] It’s not my forum, but I’m happy to move it for you, **Zaphod**. I hope everything turns out to be just fine for your wife. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/22 "2011-12-19T20:31:50Z")
> [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](#): > > Thank you. I’m sure we will be, but that’s just the rational part of me talking. The irrational part of me has that part of me in a corner and is throwing some nasty punches to the ribs. Just look at it from a different perspective: If your wife gets into some kind of trouble by visiting SK during a period of (possible) turmoil in NK, that would be . . . a thriller-plot, but not too plausible even by those standards. So **make** it plausible. Write the script, and prepared to be bored by the reality when she gets home. ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/23 "2011-12-19T21:09:04Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Well, a transition of power is genuinely a bit more dangerous than Kim Jong-Il blusting for the 379th time. That said, I don’t expect her to run into any problems other than those resulting from heightened security. You’re probably right, and the part of me that isn’t insane believes that as well. [quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:21, topic:606740”] [moderating] It’s not my forum, but I’m happy to move it for you, **Zaphod**. I hope everything turns out to be just fine for your wife. [/moderating] [/QUOTE] Thank you. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just look at it from a different perspective: If your wife gets into some kind of trouble by visiting SK during a period of (possible) turmoil in NK, that would be . . . a thriller-plot, but not too plausible even by those standards. So **make** it plausible. Write the script, and prepared to be bored by the reality when she gets home. Hmm, as long as it doesn’t accidentally get picked up by anyone. If it did, the conversation would get a bit awkward upon her return. Me: “Hey, I wrote a script for a movie and it’s been picked up!” Her: “That’s great! What is it about?” Me: “Oh, it’s a thriller about you being captured by North Koreans and, after a few weeks of torture, you ended up being forced to act as a servant to a deranged Kim Jong-Eun. After spending too many days dancing for him dressed up as a piece of broccoli, you lost it and went on a one-woman war against the North Korean military. You’ll like the end. I left it ambiguous, so the audience doesn’t know if you made it out alive or not. Just after you single handedly defeated every member of their military, you get on a plane to come home. The plane hits a patch of turbulence, and then it goes crashing to the ground, but you don’t see the aftermath. The screen just goes black and the credits start rolling!” Her: “What? Why did you leave it ambiguous? If I’m the main character, how can you not just have a happy ending.” Me: “And risk being forced to make a sequel? You know how I feel about those!” I’m pretty sure it would turn into a fight. It’s just shocking how easily this woman gets upset. ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/24 "2011-12-19T21:51:25Z")
I wish I could still edit that post. If I could, the “how can you not just have a happy ending” part would end with a question mark and look more like “how can you not just have a happy ending?” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/25 "2011-12-20T00:02:56Z")
My wife and I are scheduled to go to Korea any day now to pick up our second adopted child. We’re not worried in the least. It will be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/26 "2011-12-20T01:16:41Z")
It _is_ “business as usual” in South Korea. The country goes on high alert all the time. Other than the fact that KJI will be the subject of background conversations everywhere she goes, and on all the news channels constantly, she won’t notice otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/27 "2011-12-20T13:55:21Z")
I just got news that she landed safely. She says that people are talking about his death all over the place, but otherwise things seem pretty normal. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/28 "2011-12-20T19:50:27Z")
Great news she got there and all is well. But I came in to say that at times like this, it is probably the safest to fly and be there. Every eye in the world is on North Korea, and if so much as a kite flies above 20 feet, there will be military leaders from15 countries watching it and could tell you how long the tail is on that kite. ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740/29 "2011-12-20T20:47:10Z")
That’s a good point. North Korea is definitely sitting under a pretty powerful microscope at the moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-timing-kim-jong-il/606740.md?page=1)