Death of a Dictator, Welcome Relief?

I know he is dead, Kim Jong-il. I have purposely not written about him because most intelligent people know what a cruel, sadistic, schizophrenic person he was, and quite simply I do not want to give much fanfare in his death. Like most dictators, he died of natural cause, and by that, I mean no one put a gun to his head and ended 24 million people's suffering. Now his spawn is set to take over. I wonder if he will be a figurehead like Bashar al-Assad of Syria.