The North Korean “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is dead. His son, twenty-something Kim Jong-Un, has been named his successor. The military is running a missile-test, as if to warn the world to stay back.
2011: A bad year for dictators. Gaddafi overthrown and killed. Mubarak thrown out. Hassad and Putin facing unrest. And now this.
What do you think will happen now? Will North Korea take the chance to join with its prosperous relatives in the South, or keep the starvation and mass oppression of Communism going?
via Kim Jong-Il dies, North Korea rallies around son – Yahoo! News.
See also Mollie Hemingway’s account of the brutality of the Kim Jong-Il regime and how it especially targeted Christians.