'So Ronery'

I don't normally go in for making fun of people who have just died - bad form, rude and simply not the done thing - normally speaking. 

But I think it's fine to mock terrible dictators like Colonel Gaddafi - or the 'Dear Leader' of North Korea - Kim Jong-il who passed away the other day.

The scenes of mass hysteria in North Korea were really something to behold - people crying uncontrollably in the street as if they'd lost their beloved father or mother - instead of someone few of them knew or had never met.

Even the newsreader was weeping as she delivered the news of the Dear Leader's demise - which has been met with an announcement of 10 days of national mourning in North Korea.

I suppose one shouldn't laugh too much at this ridiculous outpouring of national grief - after all when Princess Diana died half the country took leave of its senses.

I even know someone - an otherwise intelligent woman - who drove all the way to London with her young daughter - to watch and throw flowers at the funeral procession.

But going back to Kim Jong-il - he is the head of the only hereditary communist country there's ever been - in the history of the whole world.

Kim Jogn-ill inherited the mantle of Dear Leader from his own father - Kim Sung-il - and he in turn announced - some time ago - that he would be succeeded by his youngest son - Kim Jong-un.

The outgoing Dear Leader (Kim Jong-il) was in charge of the country while 2 million North Koreans died of hunger during the 1990s - while the incoming Dear Leader (Kim Jong-un) has been privately educated in Switzerland.

Like the rest of his family - Kim Jong-un - has led a life of enormous wealth and privilege while his people go hungry and starve - denied all contact with the outside world.

But the fly in the ointment is that North Korea is a militarised country and a nuclear power - so whether it's mad or bad is a bit beside the point - because it's most certainly very dangerous.

So on the basis that if you don't laugh - you'll have to cry at the absurdity of it all - I think there's no better solution than playing the following You Tube clip from Team America - The Movie.

In which a puppet bearing an uncanny resemblance to Dear Leader - Kim Jong-il - gives a great rendition of 'So Ronery'.

http://youtu.be/jdug6yHJB40