Kim Jong-Il dead at 69

[AppleQueso]

Osama was never a dictator, just a leader of a terrorist group.

[o.pwuaioc]

First Osama bin Laden.

I don't think Osama was considered a dictator by the time he was fragged..

I didn't know we were only talking about dictators, but rather very influential and evil leaders, not just leaders of nation states.

[EvilRyu2099]

First Osama bin Laden.

I don't think Osama was considered a dictator by the time he was fragged..

I didn't know we were only talking about dictators, but rather very influential and evil leaders, not just leaders of nation states.

Point taken.. Everything comes in threes..

[AznKhmerBoi]

A look back at Kim Dynasty from the allies point of view.

While it’s a death unlikely to result in an outpouring of grief worldwide, Cambodia has been one of the few countries to maintain steadfastly friendly relations with the isolated and impoverished communist state and the family that has ruled it for some 60 years.

Phnom Penh and Pyongyang have had a unique relationship ever since Cambodia King Norodom Sihanouk and Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il’s late father, met in 1965 at a banquet Conference, which supported an anti-colonialist, non-aligned movement


Cambodia King Nordom Sihanouk (left) North Korea Kim Ill Sung (right)

Sihanouk himself penned a number of musical scores and lyrics in 1970 celebrating the “friendship and fraternity” between Cambodia and North Korea. The compositions included Homage of Khmers to Marshal Kim Il-Sung and Korea and Cambodia Are Revolutionary Comrades-in-Arms.

Kim Jong-Il’s father had a 60-room palace constructed on the outskirts of Pyongyang for Sihanouk during his exile after being ousted by the Lon Nol-led coup in Cambodia in 1970. The palace, completed in 1974, reportedly contains a Buddhist temple, a gymnasium and an indoor cinema.

Sihanouk returned to the palace in 1979 after the Khmer Rouge regime, for which he was a nominal head-of-state, was ousted by a Vietnamese-backed overthrow. From then, until his return to Cambodia in 1991, the King Father regularly holidayed at the palace, including a three-month stint in 1988 where he directed and produced The Mysterious City, a Khmer-tragedy set in the 1950s and performed by North Korean actors.

When Sihanouk did return to Phnom Penh in 1991, he reportedly came with a coterie of North Korean bodyguards who later took up residence in what continues to be the North Korean embassy near Independence Monument.

The capital even boasts a Kim Il Sung Blvd (Street 289).

Strong relations between Cambodia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have continued under Kim Jong Il, who assumed leadership after the death of his father in 1994.



Cambodia is one of the few countries, alongside China and Russia, with which North Korea continues to enjoy modern diplomatic ties. Indeed, the death of the “Dear Leader” will not have any negative impact on the bilateral relationship between Phnom Penh and Pyongyang, officials said yesterday.

Minister of Information and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the passing of Kim Jong Il was a “great loss”.

“We hope that his plans to act as a mediator for reconciliation of the two Koreas continue in the interest of the peninsula, Asia and the world,” Khieu Kanharith said.

[BoringSupreez]

Minister of Information and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the passing of Kim Jong Il was a “great loss”.

Funniest thing I've read all day.