North Korea’s secret weapon!

by | Jul 20, 2009


Who do you think wrote this poem?

“My Ideal World.” It begins: “If I had my ideal world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs anymore. I would destroy all terrorists with the Hollywood star Jean-Claude Van Damme. I would make people stop taking drugs…” He wrote a somewhat chilling short story called “My Father Was a Ghost,” in which his father haunts him by pretending to be a spirit.

Can’t guess? It’s Kim Jong Chol, second son of probably-dying North Korean despot Kim Jong Il, or so says well-known Asian politics site Gawker.  Sadly, he’s not the son likely to take control in Pyongyang. One can only imagine the joyous international reaction to a covert Belgo-Korean mission to take down Bin Laden…

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