re: #133 iceweasel

Depressingly, a South Korean friend of mine who works to try to smuggle radio transmitters up into North Korea, is convinced that the day Kim Jong-il dies— or his death is announced— hordes of North Koreans will invade South Korea. Not the army, though there would be army with them, but just insane enraged proletariat— and that the South Koreans (and Americans) will have to mow them down, and it’ll be one of the biggest slaughters ever.

Yay, now I’m all cheered up for the day.

His point is that no one has ever experienced this before, the death of a ruler who kept his people in such lockstep with him, such utter fixation with him. There have been some places that approached it, but certainly nothing in recent history.