North Korea names new “Brilliant Comrade”
News from North Korea:
The youngest son of North Korea’s authoritarian leader has been given the title of “Brilliant Comrade,” a newspaper reported Friday, a sign the communist regime is preparing to name him as successor to the ailing Kim Jong Il.
The report came shortly before the U.N. Security Council approved tough new sanctions Friday against North Korea for its recent nuclear test.
U.S. and South Korean intelligence authorities disclosed during a meeting this week that 26-year-old Kim Jong Un is now being referred to in the secretive regime as “Yongmyong-han Dongji,” which translates roughly as “Brilliant Comrade,” South Korea’s mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported.
Because “Special Master” was already taken.
And yes, this will make you chuckle:
Grandiose titles are part of a tradition to stimulate public support in a nation where the media is tightly controlled and little information about the inner workings of the government is available. The leader is given credit for most national projects. The state media carry endless flattering reports about Kim, repeatedly referring to him with his various titles of which “Dear Leader” is the most prominent.
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Sounds familiar.
At least they have enough honesty to avoid the ‘lets pretend we have a choice’ election like the one in Iran.
It should. This is the only place you hear Obama referred to as such.
To paraphrase Charles Emmerson Winchester from the old MASH series, “being named Brilliant Comrade in North Korea is like being named the finest ballerina in Galveston.”
We have “The One” and “The Annoited One” so N Korea can’t use those terms of endearment without his permission. If they do, there will be consequences.
I was sure that Dear Leader was naming Obama to the post!
Really?
With the major difference being that in N. Korea their state controlled media realizes their propaganda is all a pack of lies, half-truths and distortions. Here they actually believe their own propaganda.
Hey Chaps – This is the part I picked up on:
Whatever flavor of “Dead Leader” the folks on this blog want to call *President* Obama, you certainly can’t deny the above statement in regard to him.
Add to that, Oprah is the person who gave him the moniker “The One”.
Ditto, as plenty of them have flat-out admitted their own bias in favor of der (yes, ‘der’) leader.
If only we had a strong leader like Newt Gingrich who has the capability to take out a North Korean missile before it’s launched.
b-cat,
That site is an obvious parody. Didn’t you see the links “The Blog (Propoganda)” and “The Store (Sacred Relics)”? That didn’t clue you off?
Well if that doesn’t do it, here is the site’s host in his own words:
The artwork and the quotes are not original to the site. The spoof is a spoof of the personality cult.
OT: Government Motors has ended all support of all lower level NASCAR racing divisions.
Cup, probably, to follow.
chap, keep praising your brilliant comrage all the way to the gulag, or to the gas chamber if you have any jews in your family. Others on this blog can learn from history; you apparently cannot.
I know. I keep waiting for you to say something intelligent, and always end up disappointed.
Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
OT: Government Motors has ended all Support of all lowerlevel NASCAR racing divisions.
GM set to make “NASCAR-wide” cuts
I supposed this wouldn’t be the case if liberals followed NASCAR – but since it’s followed by “extreme” right wing nuts, it has to go. It breeds rebellion.
The US military has the capability to take out a NK missile at any point…pre-launch on.
What we lack is a leader with the resolve to do it.
Or, in the present circumstances, a leader at all.
What we have is a crowd of kleptomaniacs, with an emerging dictator at their head. They are concerned with other matters besides the national security they are sworn to protect.
Chaps, you don’t pretend that parody targets nothing, do you?
It is a glorious day for the people’s REVOLUTION!!
bow down yanqui imperialist running dogs of capitalism!!!
as your president soon will!!
*we will BURY YOU*
power to the people!!
(might as well join the winning side)
Remember, Hugo Chavez claims that Obama is to the left of him!
Red State Skeptic,
OBAMA is president, the republicans are not in power. Stop trying to blame obamas screwups on republicans. Its weak and pathetic.
So you want them to subsidize an activity that appeals to a group of people that have decided to boycott them? That seems a pretty stupid use of their marketing dollars.
Even Bill Maher is finally waking up;
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-maher12-2009jun12,0,7966784.story
I think that the North Koreans should be ashamed of themselves; stealing Obama’s favorite nickname for Tim Geithner.
That is the primary purpose of marketing; to attract customers that you don’t currently have.
I think you may want to rethink that. I’ts a WIDE demographic that watches auto racing. And say what you want, but “win on sunday, sell on monday” still applies to at least some degree. Pulling out will p.o. a lot of brand loyal people. Not a good move in my opinion. But then again, this is all off topic.
I read it, and it looks like he’s disappointed Obama is doing more to turn us into a fascist state!!
like this moronic line from maher:
fights against the banks?? hell HE OWNS THE BANKS…and he OWNS US…
he’s gonna own the healthcare comanies..and the power companies…
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!! (suckas)
Obamamotors may have to stop subsidizing a lot of activities if that’s the case because I have a feeling there will be a lot of people who will be boycotting GM and Chrysler.
So the moral underpinnings of the proposed boycott is contingent upon whether or not they sponsor a car driving around in a circle? Will that reduce the government’s 60% ownership interest? Will that absolve the meddling you accuse Obama of engaging in? Will that cause the UAW’s contract to be more palatable?
If so, that is the sorriest boycott I have ever heard of?
As Ford about boycotts. McDonald’s too. They do work, stupid or not.
Your posts are less rational and more nasty. Did the vacation go badly?
GM has changed: it’s purpose is no longer to get people to buy GM’s cars…that will be for our gov’t to enforce. It’s mission is to protect the planet from co2 and therefore nascar will be a no-no. Besides, how pathetic would it be for a prius clone to be entered into a nascar event with GM plastered all over the car???
One day the full “story” of this cruel and evil regime will come out. It will make some of the nazi atrocities look like child’s play.
Maybe. That was not my point. First, the assumption here is that GM is doing this not for a good business purpose, but rather to somehow punish those that watch NASCAR because they are presumably right wing. Mighty big assumption, especially in the middle of a bankruptcy when companies are pretty much obligated to cut any fat.
And I didn’t call the boycott stupid. I said marketing to people that have vowed to boycott your company is stupid unless it is somehow tied to reforming whatever the protest is about.
Excuse me? Can you point out what is irrational about noting that sponsoring a race car is not going to change the underlying rationales for the boycott? Or what is particularly nasty about that?
who would be the driver? barney frankfurter??? Imagine the poor donkey being forced to pull that load around.
rags, maybe chapoteer was that poor donkey…that would explain all the nastiness. the sausage king on his behind, the whole trip.
That was nasty and without rational support.
As was your comment about the GM choice of where to put
theirour advertising dollars. Really, your sneer is showing today, and you haven’t the chops.In reality, ANY advertising by ObamaMotors is anti-competitive, a conflict of interest, and vacant.
Ultimately, the only real market for ObamaMotors products will be government.
Fair enough, but 1) that wasn’t the post you cited above was it? and 2) you have no idea of what posts vinnie has made to me in the past. I fully admit my disdain for those that have treated me with zero respect in the past. If that is a disappointment to you, I am sorry.
Sarcastic? Fine. I admit to it. But I consider the idea that, if you accept that NASCAR appeals to right wingers (which was iamsaved’s contention, not mine) and further accept that any boycott of GM will be led by right wingers, GM should then turn around and continue to sponsor NASCAR to be absurd. Do you disagree with this or just my tone?
I guess even some liberals get irritated defending the indefensible day after day.
It has to be wearisome. I sure get tired of hearing it.
My new title will be, the great enlightend one of utah.
You may worship me.
Didn’t I read recently, that Un was an alcoholic, sexually perverted, and was addicted to video games? That sounds like the ideal partner for the Party of Socialist Progressives in the United States, a.k.a Democrat Party.
The Kennedy’s will have another party buddy with who to go drinking. And, Un can drive…he has experience driving from all those WII, and PS3 games, no doubt.
Barney Frank will have a new, a-hem,
“dinner” guest, and Un will have the “ear” of the Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Nancy can donate taxpayer billions for aid to NORKO…“for the children!” Un likes children…
The various Democrat power-mongers will not have to look far for thugs to carry out covert actions against their opponents.
And, the United Nations will not be able to pass sanctions against anyone who is named, Un…it would not look right.
Oh, and the United States president will not be able to refer to North Korea as “evil…” It would be a self-indictment to do so.
It remains to be seen how Kim Jong-Un will serve China’s vassal state, North Korea.
While I do like to watch a NASCAR race now and then I don’t care if GM sponsors cars anymore or not. The individual teams can still field a GM car if they choose. If their studies show that race sponsorship has little impact on sales then they should as a bankrupt company stop sponsorships on the other hand if these sponsorships do result in sales then it would be stupid to stop and would look like childish payback to a portion of the population they appear to have no respect for.
They’ll have to get rid of the batteries and solar panels…
I keep awaiting a post from Chapped that sounds even mildly intelligent, and now I realize he’s incapable, mentally challenged. He’s proof positive that liberalism is a mental disease.
I know, b-cat….I found that particularly disturbing. I once had faith that the American people would do the right thing. That died in November of 2008.
Thanks for the link maisy! I got a kick out of this part.
Dick Cheney was anything but a camera hog when he was in office. He must have confused him with McCain or maybe Chuckie Schumer?
Question: Do Chapped and LittleGreenMonster take turns bugging Michelle & the rest of us, or are they one in the same? Anybody know?
Just curious, it seems like they’re never both here at one time.
Wait a minute!
I was taught that marxism-leninism-socialism is NOT supposed to be a monarchy. As a matter of fact, Marx wrote Das Kapital because he despised monarchs.
Now, if Kim the younger is given control of North Korea, that would be three generations of the same family running the country, without a vote. Only because of a bloodline. I do believe that is called a monarchy!
So which one is it? The socialist workers paradise (just like what The B.O. wants here) or is it the Royal House of Kim?
Shouldn’t the socialists of the world be denouncing this on marxist-leninist-socialist grounds?
As always, conservatives just don’t understand the utter stupidity and hypocracy of liberals.
Picky, picky, picky…
Toyota got into NASCAR 5 years ago, because they decided it was worth the investment in advertising and brand promotion.
Obama decides Chrysler needs to be more like Toyota, which sells more cars than Chrysler in fewer dealerships, and delaerships that cost Chrysler almost nothing, as they are independent business franchises, are closed. Unless owned by someone with ties to Clinton or Obama.
Rumor has it Chrysler has also announced the end of support, Richard Petty Motorsports is laying off, and cutting everyone else’s salary, for that very reason.
GM didn’t support NASCAR teams running the Chevrolet nameplate out of charity, you pinhead.
This is meant as a slap against the bitter clingers. Or, GM is going to try to sell Mini and Smart knockoffs, suitable only for people without families.
And people that watch NASCAR tend to be both heterosexual and tend not to view babies as punishment.
Not sure how one can put GM sponsorship on condoms and gay sex toys, but maybe they’ll try.
I didn’t say they did. Perhaps it was profitable at one point. But circumstances have certainly changed. First, they are in bankruptcy and are obliged to totally restructure their business and evaluate all their expenditures. Second, I would still love an explanation of why they should market to a segment of society that is going to boycott them either way.
SHoward, who posts here frequently and works in the business disagrees vehemently with this. but if you want to put up some numbers, I’d be happy to look.
Your evidence is…..? When Wells Fargo purchased Wachovia and subsequently dropped their sponsorship to the Wachovia Championship PGA tourney, do you think they were simply slapping all the predominantly white, affluent, male viewers out of spite? Or maybe just maybe do you think they made a cost benefit analysis and determined it wasn’t the best use of their money?
As a global concept, point to places where government bureaucrats use cost/benefit analysis as a prime criteria for decision-making.
Humming the theme from Jeopardy…
If you can show me which government bureaucrat made the decision to pull the plug on the sponsorship.
not in terms of dollars, but in terms of POWER…what will benefit THEM the most, and give them those MOST POWER over YOUR LIFE…
they know whats best for you anyway!! you’d just waste your money on yourself or your family!!
Answering a question with a question?
Chicken.
But I CAN point to the OBAMA administration that decided to HALF the marketing budget of GM some weeks back.
Which makes all kinds of sound business sense if you are trying to sell cars…
As I said earlier, ObamaMotors really is just pissing money down a hole. The demise of ObamaMotors is assured unless the the ownership is returned to the private sector.
Don’t hold your breath, Chaps…
Let’s see. If my theory that insanity doubles with family succession in dictatorships, then Kim Jong-il is twice as insane as his father Kim Il-sung, and his son Kim Jong Un will be four times as insane as his father, Kim Jong-il. Wow. I cannot hardly imagine that. Of course, while Obama is prancing around the world blowing kisses and throwing olive branches to nations that have sworn to obliterate us, these nations continue to build nuclear arsenals and refine launch vehicles to keep their sworn promises.
Can you link to something showing Obama’s hand in the decision? And in either case, clearly spending all that money on marketing wasn’t working out too well for GM prior to the Obama admin.
But I CAN point to the OBAMA administration that decided to HALF the marketing budget of GM some weeks back.
I would underscore it for you if I had the ability.
Really? Who told you that? I mean, was GM’s failure due to MARKETING…???
Hmmm, is ‘Brilliant Comrade’ better than being called ‘HRH Toxic Waste Midget’?
Daddy was a prime example of visiting too many waste dumps.
Speaking of our own “Brilliant Comrade”, he has managed to piss on our British allies once again.
Bermuda is facing a major political storm, and the Crown is livid over the inept fools’ in our government. Seems that we were going to put some trained killers in their midst, and people forgot to tell people or something…
Rags, I was just discussing today how inept this ship of fools really is, and how they step in it and still strike a pose of supreme leadership for the cameras. I’m starting to wonder, oh silly me, if it’s not on purpose? Discredit the country with all long term allies, and who’s left? The despots of the world who only wish us harm.
Hey, do we have a new toy provided by our hostess? By mistake I double clicked my post and a screen came up telling me what a nitwit I’d been. That is so kewl!
Barry Soetoro/Obama made sure he slipped the word “comrades” into his speech at Normandy.
The words of Obama’s “family friend”:
Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, 1985:
For my money, no. These are the predicted miscues of a completely inexperienced megalomaniac. BIG BRO is a breathtakingly ignorant man, who thinks he is the smartest person in the room…and it doesn’t matter what room.
In reality, his world-view is mythical, and largely of his own invention. He is intelligent, but largely clueless. What is much worse, he is a doctrinaire Alinskiite who views power the way Alinski did. An EXTREMELY dangerous man, married to a deeply angry, bitter, hateful woman.
OT:
Chap:
Maybe it is time to change your nick.
OT:
Chap:
Maybe it is time to change your nick.
Sorry about the double post. I have no idea why it happened.
Cool title…I’m gonna’ use it on my business card.
Oh, I expected it would be the Comrade in Chief hussein Obama…….
Chap – There’s something we can agree on… I’ve never understood NASCAR. Why anyone would choose to spend their time and money watching cars go round and round and round in a circle is beyond me. But whatever.
Kim Jong-Un…is it just me, or is the name of the current dictator’s most junior son, rather ironic?
Jong-Un…young on’?
An underscore is not necessary. Evidence of your claim is what I am asking for.
I didn’t say that, but clearly spending however much they were on marketing wasn’t getting it done. Maybe they decided they should spend a bit more cash on developing a product people want rather than marketing ones people don’t want. Speculation? Perhaps. But no less so than your speculation that GM is cutting its NASCAR program out of mere spite.
Sounds alot like Obama the First.
Personally, I think it’s important to know what’s going on in N.Korea…news and propaganda all. The more I learn, the better it will be to educate my grand-children on what to expect when they reach my age, or sooner.
ITookTheRedPill, we are all scared…except chapped, et al, but the problem we’re having is what do we do? There are 912 groups all over the country, with reading lists that include The Forgotten Man, and Liberal Facists, and most of us belong to a TEA Party group, but my question to you is: Now that we’re wide awake, what do we do to stop this? For now…at least until 2010, there’s not much we can do. If y’all are like me, I have my senators and congressman on speed dial, but since they are all Republicans, they nearly as powerless as I am. Is armed insurrection an option? Not for much longer if they keep getting their way. Now what?
Not to take sides, Chaps, but it’s allover the Net, on sites like Adage.com and the WSJ, using any search engine you desire.
I disagree. The ads worked to create desire for GM vehicles but their high prices – related solely to UAW benefits – prevented demand.
GM may not have but can the same be said of Democrat controlled Gov Motors?
I have found plenty of articles saying GM has slashed the budget by 800 million in February. I have not found any that said Obama’s admin made the decision.
Uh Rags, the government runs C/B analysis quite frequently. It COSTS us, the taxpayer vs. the BENEFIT to the elected/appointed officials’, financially or politically. We seem to lose every time.
“The Buck Stops Here,” it comes with the territory of being president – especially one that the press has dubbed “the most engaged president ever!”
Chuckle? I think not. Read that again with, say, the NYT in mind, with just a couple of corrected “typos”:
“Grandiose titles are part of a tradition to stimulate public support in a nation where the media is tightly controlled and little information about the inner workings of the government is available. The
leaderpresident is given credit for most national projects. The state media carry endless flattering reports aboutKimBarack, repeatedly referring to him with his various titles of which ‘Dear Leader’ is the most prominent.”On June 13th, 2009 at 7:12 am, DagneyT said:
Every day, more and more people are waking up to what’s going on politically. Even a Democratic congressman admits that Obama’s TARP and Pay Czar is Socialism, and that the Democratic leadership used fear mongering and threats of Martial Law to manipulate votes in their favor.
“Now that we’re wide awake, what do we do to stop this?”
#1 – Pray.
We’re awake politically, but we’re not fully awake spirtually. The success of this country has always been dependent on the faith of its citizens.
Pray for all of those in our government, regarless of their party.
Repent of our own sins. Ask God to heal our land.
Those who live by the sword (or gun), die by the sword (or gun). While I believe in 2nd Amendment rights and protecting your family, I do not advocate armed insurrection. The Socialists took control of our government without firing a shot. I believe we can take it back without firing a shot, as long as they don’t declare Martial Law.
Saddam’s sons incarnate.
“…..as long as they don’t declare Martial Law.”
To hang on to power, don’t think that they won’t.
On June 14th, 2009 at 11:33 am, Bogtrotter said:
Very possible… which is why I ended with that caveat.
If they do declare Martial Law, that very well could trigger a
second American revolution to free “We the People” from a
tyrannical government.
On June 12th, 2009 at 1:05 pm, b-cat said:
Grandiose titles are part of a tradition to stimulate public support in a nation where the media is tightly controlled and little information about the inner workings of the government is available. The leader is given credit for most national projects. The state media carry endless flattering reports about Kim, repeatedly referring to him with his various titles of which “Dear Leader” is the most prominent.
Sounds familiar.
Beat me to it! Maybe he is getting one of his kids ready to take over his throne….