North Korea is in the news (again)...  As an American of South Korean descent, I have a wide range of feelings about it.  I'm probably like everyone else, who's a little tired of the incessant attention whoring and obvious blackmailing (aka begging, because he ran the country into the ground, winter's coming, and they probably don't have enough food) by the North Koreans.  I still have a lot of relatives in S Korea, so I'm also a little concerned for their safety.

But mostly, I'm pissed off.  Kim Jong Il is such a pathetic POS.  Clearly a "God" is going to be some ugly midget mofo with bad hair, an oompa loompa body and ladies glasses.  I don't know if I'm more mad at him or the N Korean population for being so retarded as to believing that he *could* be a deity.  This is why I can never be religious - you can't believe everything you hear.  When the day comes where the population figures out how badly they were duped, all hell is going to break loose.  I think that day will come during my lifetime.

And he really does nothing for the image of Koreans.  Because if you ask the typical person on the street what they think of when they think of "Koreans," the Top 5 list would probably go something like:
5. The War
4. dry cleaners
4. kimchi
2. massage parlors
1. Kim Jong Il
That's not a great list.  Like Sweden gets "hot women," France gets "awesome food," and we get Kim Jong Il?!?  It's so annoying that Koreans (men in particular) have such a bad image in the media (later post).  Some dude in 2+2 actually asked if there were actually any 6' tall buff Korean dudes.  Plenty!  Like me!!!  ...if you took away the all-natural winter padding I chose to grow.

The only positive I see to Kim Jong Il is that at least the clueless people out there get to hear about Korea, so that they at least know it's a country.  Kind of like what Borat did for Kazakhstan.  I liked Borat.  This one... not so much...

HUMOR

Mrs. Fly's mom originated from North Korea, and when I heard my father-in-law refer to his wife ("somewhat" affectionately) as the "the red one" (commie), I felt I needed to carry that tradition over to our family.  I try to sneak similar references into our conversation every once in a while.  Like I'll refer to the middle of our bed as the "38th parallel" (border between N and S Korea), ask if she got her sunglasses from her cousin (Kim Jong Il), etc.  You know, like any affectionate husband would do.  :-)

OMG!!!  I just realized that my sons are a quarter commie!!!

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