
Kim Jong-Il maintains a close friendship with Kim Dae-Jung, the former president of South Korea. Kim Dae-Jung is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and tremendous proponent of the new "Mustard Movement." The "Mustard Movement" is a splinter-group that stems from Kim Jong-Il's own personality cult. Aside from reveling in mustard sponge-baths, and meditating on their mustard mantras, these peaceful people promote diplomacy between all areas of the Korean peninsula.
The diplomacy seems to be working. Can't you just feel the conviviality in this picture? In terms of sheer jolliness, this is a veritable horn-of-plenty. Even the meerkat can feel it. (Of course - we all know that wild animals can sense human emotion with great accuracy. NEVER lie to an animal about being afraid - OR hiding condiments in your knapsack...BAD MOVE because they already KNOW! They just want your honesty, like anyone else would.) He stands proudly upon his haunches, sentinel for Jong-Il, harbinger of a better time, & willing occupant of the square rock. Never mind the mustard in this picture - it really played no role in the late afternoon roundtable.
This particular rock garden is found within the Fukuoka City Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Japan. This garden is located in a corner of Minami Park and houses 160 species of animals. It also has contains the largest greenhouse in Asia, containing 900 kinds of plants within the greenhouse. The Fukuoka City Zoological and Botanical Gardens also houses the worlds largest collection of identical granite rocks. As you can see in this picture, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Dae-Jung are surrounded by thousands of pieces of this holo-crystalline quartz-bearing plutonic rock; each piece weighs .04 pounds. It's simply remarkable that a place like this exists, and it is no surprise that Dae-Jung finds it conducive to peacemaking.