A new Dear Leader, a new smattering of propaganda. Footage has emerged of a documentary from North Korea celebrating Kim-Jong-un, featuring the freshly minted dictator riding a horse, sitting in a tank and looking generally authoritative.
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The Crying Game — North Korean style
They wept and wept and wept: those who attended Kim Jong-il’s funeral were careful not to be out-wailed by their companions. Daily Mail has compiled striking photographs from the tightly stage managed event and the disparate reactions from across the border.
Relief and fear: the mixed emotions of North Korean refugees
Consensus among the more than 20,000 North Korean refugees situated in South Korea appears to be relief that Kim Jong-il is dead, mixed with fear about what the young and inexperienced Kim Jong-un will do, reports B. J. Lee.
Rundle in Nth Korea: Stalinist hermit kingdom meets dystopian science-fiction
Anyone who has been to North Korea will hope to Christ that some process, from the great Kim Jong-un liberalisation to a military coup against the family, will loosen the stays sufficiently so that people might be able to feed themselves.
Post-Kim Jong-il, fear will prevail in the ‘hermit kingdom’
Next year was always going to be big for north-east Asia. The death of Kim Jong-Il has merely ensured that the political manoeuvring will begin a little earlier than expected, writes Dr Danielle Chubb, a Vasey Research Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS.
Jong-il to Jong-un: what the South makes of its new North threat
Given Kim Jong-un’s lack of political experience, he may, at least initially, rely on the leadership of Jang Sung Taek and Kim Jyung Hee. However, the true colours of the enigmatic leader of one of the last remaining dictatorships remains to be seen.
Media briefs: Leveson latest … social media in Nth Korea … ABC breaches impartiality
In today’s Media Briefs: is there hope for social media in North Korea? … ACMA warns on networks lifting from Facebook … ABC breaches impartiality and more …
Political snippets: A worry to come for the government.
The sagging public confidence about economic conditions that the pollsters are reporting is unlikely to be improved when workers get their next statement from superannuation funds.
Video of the Day: North Korea weeps for its leader
The citizens of Pyongyang react to the death of Kim Jong-il with some rather bizarre public weeping.
Crikey Says: Kim Jong-il, not so funny
It’s easy to laugh at the dearly departed Dear Leader Kim Jong-il.
What did Kim Jong-il and Vaclav Havel have in common?
Tyrant Kim Jong-il and humanitarian Vaclav Havel died within 24 hours of one another. They are similar in the sense that they had nothing in common, yet a sad truth can be learned by comparing their legacies, writes Lee Zachariah.
Kim Jong-un’s family: alcoholics, psychos and power-mongers
With young Kim Jong-un appointed to fill his father’s shoes, is there anybody else in the family who might make a grab for power? Philip Shenon explores the family tree.
Ding dong North Korea’s Dear Leader is dead
Crikey media wrap: North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il — who has led one of the world’s repressive governments for the last 17 years — died yesterday, leaving his younger son as the dictator-in-waiting.
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Inside secretive North Korea
As part of Associated Press’s attempts to gain more access to the quiet communist nation of North Korea, photographer David Guttenfelder was given an orchestrated-but-fascinating tour.
Media briefs: Ten axe swings … Age sub pub snub …
Lachlan Murdoch swung his axe today, announcing that dozens of editorial staff at Channel Ten will go and long-running nightly bulletin Sports Tonight seems certain to be cancelled. Plus, other media news of the day.
Letter from...: Letter from… the DMZ
For South Koreans, a visit to the DMZ is a visit to a near-mythical place, where relatives may still live out their lives unknown. For tourists like me, it’s a chance to see the last front line between 20th century ideologies, seemingly frozen in time and space, the last physical barrier between capitalism and communism, writes freelance writer Doug Hendrie.
Paul Barry: it’s Kim Jong Il’s birthday, they’ll swim if he makes them
Kim Jong Il, founding member of the Axis of Evil and surely the world’s worst dictator, was 69 yesterday. I feel terrible forgetting his birthday, but luckily the Chinese and Serbians remembered, as did the Syrians.
Video of the Day: Happy birthday, Dear Leader
North Korean synchronised swimmers put on a performance in honour of Kim Jong-il’s 69th birthday.
Bend it like a heavily-edited Beckham
And the honour of the first Western film ever shown in censorship-loving North Korea goes to…envelope please… Bend it like Beckham! Sure, it was edited from 112 minutes down to just 60, but no other film can claim that title.
The abandoned island of Yeonpyeong
Following the recent North Korean attacks on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, nearly all of 1,350 civilian residents have fled to the South Korean mainland, leaving behind livelihoods and years of family history. Just 60 residents remain.
Prepping for war: tensions rise in Korea
North and South Korean are reportedly preparing rocket launching systems on their borders as tension between the two countries escalates. Senator John McCain has called for a “regime change” in North Korea writes Andrew Gilligan.
A logical explanation of Kim Jong Ill’s madness
Every time a conflict flares up in Korea it’s tempting to describe Kim Jong Ill’s regime as a bunch of crazy in the coconut antagonists. But there are plenty of logical reasons for their apparent madness, writes David Rothkopf.
Korea on the brink: war unlikely, but Kim Jong Il Jnr off the leash
While the recent action by the North Koreans is serious — as serious as it has been for a long time — Korean relations expert Danielle Chubb says it’s important to take a step back and ask what the immediate causes for this action may be.
Pyongyang’s new leader — it’s all looking a bit Kim
He’s Kim Jong-un and, if yesterday’s provocative shelling attack on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong is any guide, North Korea’s leader-in-waiting may not too far removed from his father, Kim Jong-il.
North Korea attacks: is this war?
Crikey media wrap: In one of the most serious clashes between the bitter enemies in decades, North Korea attacked South Korea yesterday, killing two South Korean soldiers in a shelling spree.
