Kim Jong-un (left) and half-brother Kim Jong-nam (right)
The traitor known as Kim Jong Nam
Spent several years on the lam
But got into a scrape
That he couldn’t escape
To his killer we say “Thank you Ma’am”.
John Moynes
Pics: AP
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“Thank you Ma’am”?
Some picture, looks like he would have been more craic than his little bro, poor lad just wanted to go to Disney Land
According to Wikipedia, so take it for what it’s worth, he was removed as heir because he was open to reforms and market-opening, whatever that might mean. He also claimed to have no interest in power, which may have been his ultimately futile way of saying ‘please don’t assassinate me, little brother.’ A notoriously extravagant playboy as well, which, considering he was living off the backs of one of the most horribly oppressed peoples on the planet today, makes sympathy on a personal level quite difficult, for all that it’s probably a brutal bit of power-consolidation-by-fratricide on his brother’s part.
That’s interesting, didn’t read the wiki page. I don’t support summary execution though.
It only emphasises how utterly lawless, reckless and unaccountable people with that kind of power are, so there’s nothing good about it. (Assuming it was his brother which, y’know…)
More craic? Because he’s a hipster?
based on his picture alone
Hahah thanks
” To his killer we say “Thank you Ma’am” ”
Are “we” all racists … I mean… pro assassination loons now Mr Moynes….
Hail Kek !
Free Kekistan !
What’s this “we” business?
Precisely ! :)
It’s collective speak from what I see… nearly everyone on the left with a keyboard is bloody well at it.
They are Borg, me thinks.
You can count on me for support to point out this hypocrisy. I’ve already had a blazing row with “Anne” and survived so I’m up for anyone!
Why would we thank his killers?
Moynes has looked into our souls
Because it rhymes.
At the risk of being over-literary, the use of the term ‘traitor’ in the first line, suggests that the poet is employing a convention whereby speaker of the limerick is a supporter of Kim Jong Un, if not Kim Jon Un himself; it is therefore not out of character for the poem to use both the royal ‘we’ and express gratitude to the murderess. Or maybe Moynes really didn’t like the guy, I don’t know. Please bear in mind that the author is dead, and so is the subject of this limerick.
Nonsense.
Is there no length you lefty losers will go to to justify your moral decrepitude?
Absolutely no length whatsoever. We’ll use satire, bathos, alliteration, iambic pentameter, and first person plural pronouns to justify our moral decrepitude! HAHAHHAHA.
I would have said your stock in trade was ass-onance Nigel!
LOL
that’s what I took from the use of that word also tbf
That does make sense Nigel. A literary device. Fair enough.
I thought that was pretty damn obvious…
For the sake of a rhyme that was pretty crass. Why are we supposed to be pleased about a murder?
It’s “”irony””
Like when your mum says she wants to kill you
Look. Let’s face it. We like having a North Korea.
It’s the last totalitarian Communist state left with proper despot with weird tastes in things and inventive assassination techniques such as execution by aircraft gun or by dog mauling. A compliant zombie like population who can be off to the gulags for laughing or turning left on Wednesdays.
Also, the bleak Communist post modernist architecture and army vehicles from a bygone era make cool Twitter and Instagram browsing.
You know it’s true.
…it is
…did the assassin have an Irish passport…the travel document of choice for pariah-state-sponsored killers…
It was a tough job, but you managed to shoehorn Israel in there somehow
He was living with a lot of money that came somehow from North Korea. Lots of peasant farmers are living below the breadline throughout that crazily ruled state. What will now happen to the foreign assets of the assassinated Jung-one?