kim jong-il died two days ago. two full days went by before the a initial announcement came out. that s how tightly controlled the media is there. when it did arrive, his blinkered and brainwashed followers mourned him like the god they had been told he was. the grieving as you would imagine is intense for a leader they had been told first walked at three weeks of age. talked at two months and authored, not read but authored 1500 books while in college. those who are not overcome were simply dumb struck on receiving the news. like this gathering. they, like most north koreans not aware that eschar offed lobsters and had cognac while north koreans starved to death during the familiar inhis economic policies created. the mourners who made their way by the masses past a statue of kim il-sung did not know how how it is. when kim il-sung died, north koreans were told that a thousand white cranes tried to carry him off to heaven but were prevented from doing so by the pull of his