Kim Jong-un declares his grandfather God-Emperor on Jan 3, 2012

Considering that his father is "eternal leader of North Korea" what if his son went all the way to God-Emperor which make him a God-Emperor on his death presumably.
 
Straight-up calling his father a god-emperor is unrealistic, but something like claiming that Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung will still guide North Korea from beyond the grave, and that all must ask for their guidance, could actually be pulled off. The rest of the world would probably realize that North Korea has become a theocracy.
 
Straight-up calling his father a god-emperor is unrealistic, but something like claiming that Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung will still guide North Korea from beyond the grave, and that all must ask for their guidance, could actually be pulled off. The rest of the world would probably realize that North Korea has become a theocracy.

I'm not so sure about that, North Korea is pretty close to that already as far as I can see. It is one screwed up country.
 
Considering that his father is "eternal leader of North Korea" what if his son went all the way to God-Emperor which make him a God-Emperor on his death presumably.

Theres no precedent for it.
Kim il Sung is already the eternal president and father of the nation. all power flows from his legacy.
Naming Kim Jong IL a rank higher would be a strange back slap to all the professments of Godhood to his grandfather.
 
Considering that his father is "eternal leader of North Korea" what if his son went all the way to God-Emperor which make him a God-Emperor on his death presumably.
I wouldn't be surprised. Though I think his grandfather rather then father would get that title.
 
I personally wouldn't be shocked.
I don't think it would do much to change the opinion of North Korea one way or the other for most outsiders.
 

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Well, it's already been called a necrocracy by Christopher Hitchens.

North Korea is unique in having a dead man as head of state: Kim Jong-Il is the head of the party and the army but the presidency is held in perpetuity by his deceased father, which makes the country a necrocracy or mausolocracy as well as a regime that is only one figure short of a Trinity.

Though I suppose we have a Trinity there now.
 
Well, it's already been called a necrocracy by Christopher Hitchens.



Though I suppose we have a Trinity there now.

It takes evil to a much higher level than probably anyone on this site is capable of to spend over $2 billion on a dead man when there are literally people starving on the streets.
 
Well, Kim Il-sung is eternal president of North Korea already (and Kim Jong-il eternal general secretary). And any repercussions are internal--the Western media will report it as yet another "here is North Korea being strange" story and no one will care. But what will Kim Jong-un's generals and such think? Anyone skeptical can be purged, but if too many of them are, North Korea will have to moderate the tone--that may or may not be reported in the media, since the media is most interested in the strangest and mostly fake stories like "everyone in North Korea must get Kim Jong-un's haircut" or "North Korea lands a man on the sun" and such nonsense. Or "Kim Jong-un feeds generals to dogs", going by related stories.

Really, Kim Jong-un is after legitimacy, and he seems to know that he isn't in a legit monarchy. Thus, he needs to be highly careful about how he affects this system. And his father and grandfather are already eternal leaders of North Korea, so why go out of the way to make them even more important? Surely the North Korean military had a role to play in the triumph of North Korea against the evils of capitalist influences (from South Korea/Japan/USA) and Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il recognised that, so Kim Jong-un must keep a reminder to the West in that regards. And since Kim Il-sung is one of the greatest individuals who ever lived, well, who better to show as the face of fighting capitalism for the sake of Juche ideals? After all, life was good in the DPRK when Kim Il-sung was leading things.
 
Kim Il-Sung is declared God-Emperor, China is declared to be inhabited by Orks. China is offended, decides that it's finally time to put North Korea out of its misery. :D
 
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