North Korea to display dead leader
Last Updated on Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:29 Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:09
It's about knowing when to say stop. That concept is lost on the North Korean regime who have announced that their recently deceased leader, Kim Jong-ill, is to be embalmed and put on public display so that the sorrowful commoners can pay their respects. Not just that, but statues, murals and memorial towers will be built accross the country to remind people of their Dear Leader - who is estimated to be responsible for millions of deaths, starvation, economic lunacy and generally, running one of the most corrupt, brutal and secretive regimes in the world.
But at least family traditions are being maintained. Kim Jong-ill's father was also embalmed and is on display at Pyongyang’s Kumsusan Memorial Palace. A team of Russian experts helped embalm him and another team from Russia are said to be on their way to North Korea now to embalm Mr. Dead Crazy.
The politburo are busy transforming Jong-ill into a revered deity for the masses. His father has had "towers of eternal life" built across the country to him and his birthday of April 15 th is known as the Day of the Sun, presumably in refernece to the great guidance bestowed by a god on his people. Or maybe it's just irony. Whichever, "the greatest auspicious holiday of the nation" (their words, not mine) is about to be created on February 16th, Kim Jong-ill's birthday, so the masses can take time off slave labour to remember the Dear Leader.
It has become something of a communist tradition that dead leaders be embalmed for the masses to pay their respects to. Lenin was the first but when the Soviet Union fell, many of the embalmed were buried or cremated.
Kim Jong-ill lying in state
