He was a god, you know

At times like this, I do wish that the Korean Friendship Association would enable comments:

North Korea says a fierce snowstorm paused and the sky began glowing red above sacred Mount Paektu just minutes before leader Kim Jong Il’s death. State media say the ice on volcanic Lake Chon at the mountain in the far north cracked with a load roar.  And in the city of Hamhung, a Manchurian crane circled a statue of Kim’s father, late President Kim Il Sung, before alighting on a tree, its head drooping before it took off toward Pyongyang.  [AP]

Such unusual supernatural forces these are, which can light up the sky and stop snowstorms but can’t unclog arteries.

I don’t believe for a minute that any   North Korean over the age of 13 still believes this stuff, and I have to think that the propaganda hacks who write it figured that out before I did.  So why write asinine things like this?  Just to subjugate people into repeating it?  So that all the foreigners know to give the crazy guy whatever he asks for?  Because they think that’s what the boss wants?

More thoughts on the deification of the Kims here.