On My Way To Korea

Source: Babelgum

Kim Jong Il is a mysterious dictator. He’s alleged to have uttered only one sentence in public, and keeps his hermit kingdom under a veil of megalomaniac lore that manages every aspect of public perception—down to the story of his birth. The truth became murky sometime in the 1980s, when Kim began publicizing a new, more illustrious version. He switched his birth date from 1941 to 1942, making him the same age for two years straight. Then he built a log cabin on the highest mountain in North Korea, proclaiming it his official birthplace and offering guided tours. Which one is real? Try a choose-your-own-birth for the modern dictator.

This is a continuation of the North Korean propaganda series.  For more information regarding the series or the North Korean dialect, please refer back to the first page, featuring women.

Pages in this series

North Korean

1. Women
2. Children
3. Anti-USA 1
4. Anti-USA 2
5. Army
6. Juche and Seon-gun
7. Great Leader
8. Other 1
9. Other 2
10. Anti-USA 3
11. Great Leader 2
12. Juche and Seon-gun 2
13. Other 3
14. Other 4
15. Other 5
16. Other 6
17. Other 7

South Korean

1. Extreme
2. Other 1
3. Other 2
4. Original

Here’s the set of the posters having to do with the Great Leader:

We’ll win if the Great General is here!
위대한장군님만 졔시면 우리는 이긴다!

Let’s thoroughly arm more and more through
the revolutionary ideas of the Great Leader Kim Il-Seong
위대한 수령 김일성 동지의 혁명사상으로 더욱 철저히 무장하자!

Let’s go with the will of our great General to the end!
우리 장군님과 끝까지 뜻을 같이 하자!

Let’s guard our loving Great Commander with our guns with  a do-or-die spirit!
경애하는 최고사령관동지를 총대로 결사옹위하자!

Honor the old teachings of the Great Leader (referring to Kim Il-Seong / 김일성) with your guns!
위대한수령님의 유훈을 총대로 받들리!

Next, we’ll be looking at the first post of various other posters.

If you remember, I made a photoshop of Kim Jong Il riding a nuke about two months ago.  It’s funny to see someone do the exact same thing.

Mine:

Other guy’s:

Head over and see the 77 photoshoped pictures of the infamous Kim Jong Il (the above image is #50).  There’s just something about him that begs to be photoshoped …

I absolutely love #4 and #36 .  Which are your favorites?

This image, released on November 5, claims to show Kim with a North Korean military unit. The BBC and the UK’s Times newspaper have raised questions about the legitimacy of this image. Experts point to a line at knee-height that runs behind the soldiers in the front row of the reviewing stand where Kim poses. The line stops at the two soldiers standing to his left and right, suggesting that he was digitally inserted into the photograph.

Source: CNN

North Korea is just keeping itself in the news lately hasn’t it?  If a Nuke and several missiles weren’t enough, they have reportedly scrapped the armistice agreement that was signed after the Korean War to stop the fighting.  It’s all up in the air right now, South Korean forces are at the second highest level of readiness.  Kim Jong-Il doesn’t like the fact that South Korea just joined the PSI, but I think he would find any excuse to show off how serious they are.  As Kim Jong-Il gets older, the question of who will replace him and how the regime will change in a stable manner is a major matter of concern.  We’ll see how them playing with fire pans out.

Source: Yonhap News, JoongAng, Chosun Ilbo