Next Up, Fearless Leader?

And just in time for Christmas, too! Dictator Kim Jong "I'm So Ronery" Il is, if there's a just God, already roasting in Hell, dead at 69 and not one moment too soon.

The Associated Press reports:

Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994. He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father and built according to the principle of "juche," or self-reliance.

In September 2010, Kim Jong Il unveiled his third son, the twenty-something Kim Jong Un, as his successor, putting him in high-ranking posts.

From the "Great Leader" to the "Dear Leader" to... well, you get the joke.