Culture Buzz Among the many performances during yesterday's celebration of their fallen dictator's life was a song performed by the country's first-ever girl group. First-ever! The Jongettes — yes, really — performed a tribute to Kim Jong il and later on a group of synchronized swimmers danced to the song, “We Will Defend General Kim Jong Un at the Risk of Our Lives.” How uplifting! (via dailymail.co.uk)
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Like father, like son. Since the recent death of Kim Jong Il, North Korean state-run media has been releasing a series of images of the “Great Successor,” Kim Jong Un looking at a variety of mundane things.
North Korea is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on North Korea.
Culture Buzz It's easy to forget that Kim Jong-Il, though he may have been a tyrant who starved and oppressed his own people, was still someone's daddy. Unlike the hysterical theatrics in Pyongyang's streets, these tears might be genuine. Awwww…does the Great Successor need a tissue?
Politics Buzz The recently departed “Dear Leader” was called many things in his life. The following are allegedly all titles that were ascribed to him by foreign leaders (according to North Korea).
Politics Buzz Create your own dictator, or mix and match your own! Makes a great toy for the single-party or military-junta obsessed kid in your life. Developed by an Australian artist named Stephen Ives. (via collabcubed.com)
Kim Jong Il is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Kim Jong Il.
Celebrity Buzz Reserving our place in hell for making these a reality, but the internet told us to.
Culture Buzz The autocratic tyrant from the People's Republic of Wadiya (who may or may not be Sacha Baron Cohen) mourns the passing of a fellow megalomaniacal dictator. Okay, he's definitely Sacha Baron Cohen's character from The Dictator.
Culture Buzz So, are they faking it?
Politics Buzz With Kim Jong-Il's passing, we take a look at the three sons he fathered, and why the youngest is taking the reigns.
There's a reason why any foreigner who dares to visit North Korea is arrested if attempting to wander outside of a guided tour arranged by the government. They might catch a glimpse of the hunger crisis going on. For more on the subject, I recommend reading “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” by Barbara Demick and watching the documentary “Seoul Train”.
Politics Buzz Kim Jong-Il deemed his second son, Kim Jong Chol, “too feminine” to take power. This poem that Jong Chol wrote (under the pseudonym Chol Pak) entitled “My Ideal World” might have something to do with that.
Culture Buzz This picture, taken this morning, sums up how much South Koreans will miss the freshly departed Dear Leader of the North. Yeesh…tell us how you REALLY feel, Unknown Man In Seoul.
Culture Buzz This footage was taken from North Korean state media and it's so unbelievably creepy. I have chills.
Culture Buzz I hope the afterlife is filled with many kinds of sausages and cheese.
Culture Buzz Because when a dictator dies, people need to tweet about it. These were the best that Twitter had to offer.
Politics Buzz South Korea's Yonhap News Agency is reporting that the North Korean dictator died of fatigue yesterday morning during a 17 hour train ride. This is his life in images.
Culture Buzz A comprehensive list on how to keep Kim Jong-il happy.
Culture Buzz Artist Phillip Toledano, working under the conviction that “being an artist is a great deal like being a dictator,” has incorporated himself into a series of Kim Jong Illustrations. Much more over at Kim Jong Phil.com.
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The world's littlest dictator likes to look at things.
Culture Buzz The comical hijinks of everyone's favorite Russian autocrat. Tune in to his further adventures, same Putin time, same Putin channel!
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Tumblr with a license to il.
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It's nice to know there's a real life super-villain in the world.
Politics Buzz Every now and then the North Korean News Agency releases images of Kim Jong-il making on-spot visits. Here are some of my favorites.
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It has just been confirmed that Kim Jong Il's youngest son will succeed him as the next leader of North Korea. I guess that means they won't be getting a Justin Bieber concert anytime soon.
This drawing is based on a photograph because this really, actually happened.