{"id":5413,"date":"2010-05-22T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2010-05-22T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T03:46:30","slug":"is-kim-jong-il-the-worlds-most-powerful-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5413\/is-kim-jong-il-the-worlds-most-powerful-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Kim Jong-Il the World&#8217;s Most Powerful Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is North Korea <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5388\/if-gangsters-get-the-death-penalty-for-drive-by-shootings-why-can%E2%80%99t-rogue-governments-who-target-warships\/ \" target=\"_blank\">responsible for the unprovoked sinking<\/a> of a South Korean warship, the American intelligence community concludes that the government\u2019s supreme leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/world\/asia\/23korea.html?hp \" target=\"_blank\">Kim Jong-Il ordered the attack<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s difficult to fathom any government other than North Korea\u2019s being able to kill 46 members of another country\u2019s military personnel by executive fiat, and be threatened with \u2013 at most \u2013 a United Nations sanction.<\/p>\n<p>Since North Korea\u2019s \u201cDear Leader\u201d has it in his power to kill other people\u2019s sailors at whim and expect almost no response, maybe <em>he<\/em> is the powerful man in the world.\u00a0 If not, wait \u2018til he gets a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is North Korea responsible for the unprovoked sinking of a South Korean warship, the American intelligence community concludes that the government\u2019s supreme leader, Kim Jong-Il ordered the attack.\u00a0 It\u2019s difficult to fathom any government other than North Korea\u2019s being able to kill 46 members of another country\u2019s military personnel by executive fiat, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1268,134,1299,169],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-kim-jong-il","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}