  18 December, 2011  Kim Jong-il is Dead. Dead? Dead. Uh-oh.  By
Aaron 18 December, 2011  According to North Korea's ever-
reliable Central News Agency, Kim Jong-il - he of the pompadour
hairdo, numerous holes-in-one on the links, and despot
extraordinaire - has died. Reports of Kim's demise have proven
premature in the past, but given that the North's main news
organ is confirming the death, I suppose we can take it as
given.  Death has seldom come to a more deserving person. In
addition to putting North Korea's economy firmly into the
crapper, Kim and his father (Kim Il-Sung, founder of the nation)
oversaw a network of concentration camps, kidnapped Japanese and
South Korean citizens, and regularly engaged in state-sponsored
terrorism (bombing civilian airliners, shelling South Korean
towns, etc.). Outside of North Korea, few people responded with
anything short of "hallelujah" to Kim's death.   The trouble in
North Korea may have only just begun. Kim Jong-il's son, Jong-
eun, is the heir apparent, but he's y