Ed
4th September 2003, 05:14 AM
NYT, today
"TOKYO, Sept. 3 — The election outcome was never in doubt, but when North Koreans heard "the happy news," housewives left their houses, children left their schools and workers left their jobs, all "dancing with bunches of flowers in their hands," according to the state news agency.
By a vote of 687 to 0, the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea today re-elected the "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, to his most important post, chairman of the National Defense Commission. Mr. Kim has been North Korea's leader since 1994, when his father died. He ran unopposed, winning a new five-year term, "reflecting the unanimous will and desire of all the servicemen and the people," according to the Korean Central News Agency."
How does this guy pull win like that out of a hat? Amazing.
"TOKYO, Sept. 3 — The election outcome was never in doubt, but when North Koreans heard "the happy news," housewives left their houses, children left their schools and workers left their jobs, all "dancing with bunches of flowers in their hands," according to the state news agency.
By a vote of 687 to 0, the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea today re-elected the "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, to his most important post, chairman of the National Defense Commission. Mr. Kim has been North Korea's leader since 1994, when his father died. He ran unopposed, winning a new five-year term, "reflecting the unanimous will and desire of all the servicemen and the people," according to the Korean Central News Agency."
How does this guy pull win like that out of a hat? Amazing.