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How Sincere Was the Grief Shown at the Death of Kim Jong-il?

January 11th, 2012

By Dan Miller Some of it probably came not from the heart.

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Tags: bears, birds, death, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, mourning, punishment, satire
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Kim Jong-un Is Really Cool!

January 8th, 2012

By Dan Miller Here is a new video showing North Korea’s newly ascended leader, Kim Jong-un Kim Jong-kool, riding a horse, driving a tank, preparing to fly an airplane and doing other stuff most any guy of his age would enjoy. He even seems happy.

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Tags: DPRK, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, Obama, religion, satire, succession
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Further Speculations on North Korea

January 3rd, 2012

By Dan Miller Strange things can happen behind closed doors. As I’ve observed many times, North Korea is a black hole from which little light emerges; what little useful information escapes usually consists of propaganda and speculation. Here’s some more speculation. Part of the Eurasia Group report about the top risks of 2012 involves North […]

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Tags: DPRK, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, stability, succession, transition, violence
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The Religion of Kim in North Korea

December 28th, 2011

By Dan Miller North Korea worships the Kim Dynasty. Religion takes many forms. Some find various forms desirable, some find them undesirable. This article looks at religion in North Korea, where there is little if anything to find desirable from a Western perspective but much to find undesirable. In North Korea, with an estimated population […]

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Tags: DPRK, Kim Dynasty, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, religion, satire
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The Center of the Earth, North Korea, and Different Cultures

December 22nd, 2011

By Dan Miller Reality is often not as we think or wish it were. I spent the past couple of days writing this article about the impacts of Korean culture and history on its future as well as ours now that Kim Jong-il is dead and his young son, Kim Jong-un, is nominally in charge. […]

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Tags: DPRK, foreign policy, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, personalities, succession
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