OT: Kim Jong Il is dead.

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You know, when Kim Il-Sung died, I was stationed in Korea. We all expecting an invasion any moment; we were on base restriction for a month, subject to a one-hour recall, and sometimes had alerts three times per day. Our vehicles were kept constantly combat-loaded at all times, with full ammunition loads and weapons issue instead of the token issue we normally got for your average exercise.

But nothing happened other than heated rhetoric. I expect much the same this time. Kim Jong-Un and his generals will mouth off roundly and regularly to let us know they're still there, there might be an increase in small-unit border incursions, a few rocket launches into the seas between Japan and Korea, but don't expect a war. Nothing to see here.