{"id":627,"date":"2008-10-11T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-10-11T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T05:47:37","slug":"kim-il-sung-and-gulshan-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/11\/kim-il-sung-and-gulshan-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Il-Sung and Gulshan Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know who the president of North Korea is right? It’s not Kim Jong-Il<\/a>. It’s his long-deceased father Kim Il-Sung<\/a>. The North Korean constitution was amended to make him ‘Eternal President of the Republic<\/a>‘. Kim Jong-Il is the mad dictator of North Korea, but the official position he holds is only ‘General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea’.<\/p>\n

This is similar to Turkmenistan, where the Presidency has passed on, but only Saparmurat Niyazov<\/a> is Turkmenbashi, though he too is long gone.<\/p>\n

This sort of thing exists in India too. All T-Series movies – Karzzzz included – are advertised as ‘Gulshan Kumar Presents…’ even though Gulshan Kumar told jai back in 1997. Which means that he’s been presenting movies in a deceased state for eleven years now. How’s that for succession planning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know who the president of North Korea is right? It’s not Kim Jong-Il. It’s his long-deceased father Kim Il-Sung. The North Korean constitution was amended to make him ‘Eternal President of the Republic‘. Kim Jong-Il is the mad dictator of North Korea, but the official position he holds is only ‘General Secretary of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[844,921,1191,1192,1330,1560,1950,2164,2293,2294],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirder-than-fiction","tag-from-beyond-the-grave","tag-gulshan-kumar","tag-kim-il-sung","tag-kim-jong-il","tag-mad-dictator","tag-north-korea","tag-saparmurat-niyazov","tag-t-series","tag-turkmenbashi","tag-turkmenistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-a7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}