KIM JONG-IL OF NORTH KOREA IS DEAD!

 

Icheoku says 2011 will go down in history as the year which dealt many dictators world over, most fatal blows. Ben Ali of Tunisia, Moummar Gaddafi of Libya, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and now Kim Jong-Il of North Korea, a member of the infamous Axis of Evil; alongside Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Ahmanejadi of Iran. 

Icheoku says the six blocs of US, Russia, China, South Korea, Japan and the European Union should use the window provided by the death of the former reclusive leader to try and resolve the North Korea nuclear crisis; and in as much as no one's death is joyous, Kim Jong-Il departure may be what North Korea needs at this time to free itself of the shackles of so many decades. North Korea's neighbor to the south of the demilitarized zone, South Korea, will also breathe a sigh of relief that the ever present threat of a nuclear nightmare is now over, at least for the moment. 

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, died on December 17, 2011 of "physical and mental exhaustion. He was 69years old. Hopefully there will not be a succession showdown between his heir apparent and the old generals who constitute the old guard of the late leader. Icheoku says may his communist soul rest in peace. Before Icheoku forgets, that brings to two, comrades of Russia's Vladimir Putin who had died this year, the other one being Moummar Gaddafi of Libya.