Kim Jong-il dead  Dec 19 2011

The North Korean leader died two days ago and now no one knows who's in charge or what's going to happen, which is pretty much par for the course for North Korea.

Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family's dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack while traveling on his train, according to an announcement Monday by the country's state-run media.

Whatever else might be said about him, Kim sure liked to look at things.

Kim Jong-il looks at things  Dec 01 2010

A collection of photos of Dear Leader looking at things: corn, your desktop, wheat.

Actually, I can't recall seeing a photo of Kim doing anything but looking at stuff. (thx, steve)

Kim Jong-il's special titles  Nov 03 2010

Wikipedia has a list of all the ridiculous titles that have been used in the North Korean media to refer to Dickhead-in-Chief Kim Jong-il. A sampling:

Superior Person
Sun of Communist Future
Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love
Beloved and Respected General
Invincible and Iron-Willed Commander
World's Leader of The 21st century
Glorious General, Who Descended From Heaven

(via @matthiasrascher)