Again...

No one, not even Kim Jong Il, need ever end up in hell. But that is likely where he is now. I would not wish that fate on anyone.

He had his life, and squandered it. He lived like a king, albeit in more communistic terms, but he was, for all intents and purposes the emperor of North Korea. He lived sumptuously while his people starved (Luke 16:19-31). He blustered and shook every sabre at his disposal over any and every threat (most of which whose sole desire was to see his people treated more humanely). But Kim Jong-Il was an irrational and paranoid man.

His is a kingdom that truly deserves to fall. It remains to be seen, however, whether or not his son is cut of the same cloth. Will he be able to consolidate power? Will he follow in his father's godless footsteps and join him, in time, in the fires of hell? Or will he find faith? Here now is someone we can pray for-- Kim Jong-Un. Someone for whom it is not too late.

No prayer now can help the father, however. He will get his day in court, as it were, at the great white throne judgment, but that judgment, I should point out, is for the wicked-- not for anyone with any hope of seeing heaven.

It is better that a man live in fear of the Lord, rather than any man with power to starve you... kill your body. Better to fear God who can destroy both body AND soul in hell.

I would say, 'God, grant him peace,' but that's not to be his fate. There is no peace for the wicked; not in this life, or the next.