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Well well well. Maybe there's some kind of karmic balancing going on. After so many sad deaths over the past week, finally we get some compensation: Kim Jong-Il has gone to meet his father.
Here's the announcement on North Korean TV. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now:
More links here.
Perhaps Hitchens had a word or two when he saw St Peter.
Update: a nation mourns….
Bin Laden dead, Gaddafi dead, Mladic and Mubarak in prison. Now Bad Hair Boy’s popped his clogs. And there are still 14 days left in 2011. Come on, Fate, one last push and we can add Mugabe to that list…
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All over North Korea, supermarket floors are going unswept, walls are going unpainted and production lines are disgorging products onto the floor, all for the want of someone to inspect them.
Appropriate that the last thing he inspected before his death was a knitted goods store.
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/
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Not the last thing according to the Pyongyang Times. See this post – http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/field-guidance-no-more.html
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