{"id":27979,"date":"2011-12-19T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27979"},"modified":"2011-12-19T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:23:19","slug":"the-last-stalinist-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27979","title":{"rendered":"The last Stalinist gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdug6yHJB40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>North Korean news reported the death of Kim Jong Il on Saturday listing the cause of death as &#8220;over worked&#8221;. Marching his nation backwards into the 19th century, Kim Jong Il&#8217;s death is of little consequence to anyone outside of the two Koreas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/dec\/18\/north-korea-says-kim-jong-il-dies-69\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>South Korea immediately declared an emergency and put its armed forces on alert. President Lee Myung-bak canceling all planned events Monday and the country\u2019s National Security Council was meeting in emergency session Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2010, Mr. Kim\u2019s youngest son, Kim Jong-un, was elevated to be his successor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the North&#8217;s Korean Central News Agency, he was named head of his father\u2019s funeral committee. The funeral was set for Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Mr. Kim is in his late 20s and little is known about him besides the fact that he studied in Switzerland and has no political experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If my son wasn&#8217;t stationed in South Korea at the moment, I wouldn&#8217;t care either. I&#8217;m sure that the OWS crowd will have a moment of silence in remembrance of the socialist hermit king.<\/p>\n<p>Go to about :45 in this video to see how the OWS reveres and remembers Kim Jong Il;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jMV0TR3pGzg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/n-korea-test-fires-short-range-missile-report-130006284.html\">they test-fired a short range missile<\/a> on the same day that they announced the death of their Dear leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean news reported the death of Kim Jong Il on Saturday listing the cause of &hellip; <a title=\"The last Stalinist gone?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27979\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The last Stalinist gone?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}