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DPRK Cult Opera Themes (& Open Thread)

By John Batchelor on January 12, 2012 at 11:30 AM in Current Affairs

New video from North Korea, DPRK, starring Kim Jong Un playing his father in the walk-and-talk-with-the-bosses scenes that serve as a regime opera.

The many faces of military cadres is the best evidence available of who is in charge of the Kim cult. What is striking is how closely KJU imitates his father’s casual haberdashery and regal gestures, as if he is trying out for the role of Big Kim.

Are they now experimenting with doubles and triples in the same rolly-polly format, so that they can send KJU on secret missions while his doubles hold court for cameras? This is bizarre discovery.

The PRC and its PLA cadres are held in check by the play-acting of these unusually dim-witted actors on a stage of severe depravity (famine as a weapon is commonplace in DPRK).

KJU is a stooge to stooges. The KJU cult development proceeds in a separate reality to ours, a parallel performance, and it is testing the audience (us) to learn if the cult is satisfactory.

This may be the best version we will ever get of what the planet would look like if the junta opera cults ever achieved their goals of conquest. For now, it is as if there are cult theme parks, in Tehran, in Pyongyang, in Damascus, in Harare and so forth, where the melodramas struggle in their central casting roles.


– From the blog for the John Batchelor Show.

  • PA

    Kim Jong Un has an uncanny resemblence to Romney. Certainly a similar privledged and silver spoon background.

    • Anonymous

      Good grief!  Please check out the last sentence of my comment above (or below–depending on houw you have your comment thread set up).

      Every time I see the smug mug of Obaby, I want to upchuck.  If you don’t think his affirmative action, pro-socialist (Marxist) upbringing didn’t create a cult figure wannabee, you are absolutely brainwashed until you are blind.

      • PA

        Funny stuff…. 
         
        All the buzzwords: affirmative action  and socialism (marxism) – as if there is something wrong with these terms.
         
        Just out of curiosity; how do you define socialism and marxism?
         
        Better to be popular than being “pink slip” Romney who cannot even get above 25% of the vote of his own party.
         
        North Korea is a conservatives dream. An elite wealthy-military 1% running the country.
         

        • Anonymous

          In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the “Great
          Society,” or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must
          accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. But they’ve
          been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves; and all of the
          things I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican
          accusations. For example, they have voices that say, “The cold war will
          end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism.” Another voice
          says, “The profit motive has become outmoded. It must be replaced by the
          incentives of the welfare state.” Or, “Our traditional system of
          individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th
          century.” Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. He referred
          to the President as “our moral teacher and our leader,” and he says
          he is “hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by
          this antiquated document.” He must “be freed,” so that he
          “can do for us” what he knows “is best.” And Senator Clark
          of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines
          liberalism as “meeting the material needs of the masses through the full
          power of centralized government.”

          Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you
          and me, the free men and women of this country, as “the masses.” This
          is a term we haven’t applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, “the full power of
          centralized government”—this was the very thing the Founding Fathers
          sought to minimize. They knew that governments don’t control things. A
          government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know
          when a government sets out to do that, it must use
          force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding
          Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as
          well or as economically as the private sector of the economy. 

          http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Reagan+speech+1964&oq=Reagan+speech+1964&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2963l9023l0l9280l18l17l0l2l2l0l214l2018l5.9.1l15l0

          • HELENK

            damn shame there are not teachers or an education system anymore that teaches the dangers of losing your freedoms. Maybe there would not be so many that are willing to give them up for so little.

            • PA

              Freedom! Freedom! Let Freedom rain! Freedom! American Exceptionalism! Freedom!

              A quick question:

              What precise freedoms have you lost?

              • Anonymous

                 hmmmmm…I thought Liberals were against the Patriot Act and the NDAA.

              • HELENK

                the freedom to travel without being hassled.
                the freedom to vote with having acorn or the black panthers attack you
                The freedom of having a protected border where terrorists might cross and harm my country.
                having a president who loves and is proud of the country and does not go around the world making apologies for a country that has done more to help other countries than any country on earth

                • Anonymous

                  HELENK,

                  Did you notice that PA did not respond to the topic of the post?  Methinks he/she/it wants to deflect from her obvious believe that all those Koreans REALLY were sad about the death of their dear leader, as he/she/it would be over the non-re-election of his/her/its dear leader.

                  • HELENK

                    kool aid is bad for the brain!!
                    I do try to ignore trolls

                • PA

                  I am not sure I would equate “freedom” with airport security checks. I have never seen a member of the “black panthers” or Acorn at a voting both. Not sure how many terrorist are crossing the border, so I am not sure what that has to do with freedoms. You seem to be contradicting yourself as you do not want airport/border security, but also are complaining about terrorist crossing the border or terrorists in general. Very logical. I am not sure I have heard make any apologies to anyone around the world. Care to give some examples? Do you also have any proof that Obama does not love his country?

          • Anonymous

            Thank you so very much for this very fine answer to PA–an obvious Kool-Aid addict.  I could have added more examples, but I’m pretty sure he/she/it would not be able to process the information, his/her/its brain beins so clouded and all.

            I just have to remember NOT to respond to the trolls.

  • HELENK

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085636/North-Korea-cracks-mourners-didnt-genuine-death-Kim-Jong-il.html

    if you are sent to a labor camp for not crying enough, what do they do to you if you smile??

  • Anonymous

    “Are they now experimenting with doubles and triples in the same
    rolly-polly format, so that they can send KJU on secret missions while
    his doubles hold court for cameras?”

    Or, if he is such a fool, send the doubles out. What difference does it make?
    And calling his father “Big Kim”? Does that make the grandfather “Biggest Kim?

  • Anonymous

    Wow!  I stepped away from the video just as the music started playing.  I could have sworn they were showing Dr. Zhivago from the sound of it.  I couldn’t stand to watch the whole thing.  It was as if the country is locked still in the early twentieth century when this kind of overblown political attempt at epic drama worked in Germany and Russia. 

    The only reason I got up to retrieve something as I started the video was that the woman just kept reading, and since I don’t understand Korean, my thought was that our own television-raised generation would not sit for even a minute of the reading part.  I watched as long as I could before I just had to find my coffee mug.  Then I heard that music!  When I sat back down and saw the images, I was just dumbfounded with disbelief.  Incredible.  I feel sad for the people of Korea that they are either taken in by this stuff or forced to pretend to go along with it.

    And you’re right–after seeing the cult of Sadaam statues, etc., during the start of the Iraq War (undeclared), and now thinking about your comparison to Iran and the other places you mention–we MUST NOT allow “the junta opera cults” to take over. 

    And now my mind flashes to the Roman temple in my own city of Denver a few years ago.  Frightening!!!!.

  • candymarl

    Well I would weep for the dead guy but I misplaced my tear ducts.

  • HELENK
  • HELENK
  • HELENK

    if one more obot starts about how good backtrack is, I will throw up.
    That useless sob has to be defeated in 2012.
    complained on Baghdad trip about shaking hands and having picture taken with the military.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/book-depicts-cranky-obama-on-baghdad-visit

  • Anonymous

    Your web site is top-notch I will have to read it all, thank you for the diversion from my classwork!

  • http://www.hancocks.co.uk/ sweets

    Really very interesting video post. I just amazed to see that Kim Jong here. I honestly like him. By the way thanks for this nice conception. Keep up coming!