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Getting It Right - For Once!

# 2011-12-19 13:59:31, Eldon-Online
"But my prediction is that in 2011 the "Dear Leader" will become the "Dearly Departed Leader" ."Rather scarily, in December 2010 at an Economist Magazine event in Hong Kong called "The World in 2011", and in my Blog dated 20 December entitled "Whatever Next" I made the above prediction (alongside four others, in the hope I would get at least one right!). Although I was the "public face" of that prediction, in all honesty it was a joint effort. The creation mainly of my good friend and Canadian collaborator who eventually persuaded me that it was possible.Today, 19 December 2011, we received the news that it has happened. Kim Jong Il, North Korea's leader for the past 13 years is no longer. Dead, apparently from a heart attack on 17 December.The second half of the prediction as to the future of Kim's son will still need to be followed carefully.The world may be nervous about the possible repercussions of a power struggle affecting the rest of the world, but personally I do not think it...