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NORTH KOREAN LEADER Kim Jong Il has died of a heart attack at the age of 69 – so who will succeed him?
North Korea has urged its 24 million people to rally behind heir-apparent Kim Jong Un, Jong Il’s son, after the death of the country’s supreme leader.
The death has made South Korea put its military on high alert, while President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak agreed by phone to closely monitor the events in the North.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the country “must faithfully revere respectable comrade Kim Jong Un.”
While there was no immediate statement on the country’s official succession, the North said in a dispatch that the people and the military “have pledged to uphold the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Un” and called him a “great successor” of the country’s revolutionary philosophy of ‘juche’, or self reliance.
At the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Un, we have to change sadness to strength and courage and overcome today’s difficulties.
- Additional reporting AP
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Every business in Ennis has been a victim of crazy council rates. That council doesn’t understand the meaning of supporting business. Trump is over this week. Maybe he might give them a lecture on how to grow businesses
…… but robbing shops is part of our culture boss, it’s discrimination to stop us doing it ……
….. our people have been robbing shops all over Europe for centuries, you can’t punish us for following our traditional way of life ……
…… the govment won’t give us free money for sitting on our backsides so we have to rob, I’d a difficult childhood & people at school laughter at me cox I’m stupid & only wear tracksuits ever …… gimme another chance your honour I’ll definitely learn this 63rd time
Every haulage business in the country has had some experience of crime, be it in Ireland or abroad & when it happens overseas we are then the victims of police incompetence or sanction because of the crime perpetrated against us. No help or assistance from the dept of transport or foreign affairs just to add insult to injury.
By “crime” are you including staff pilferage?
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