Of course, all of us knew that Kim Jong-Il wouldn't live forever, producing high-quality cinema and keeping up his record breaking lifetime score for amateur golf. He had to return to his original form and home planet-erm, we mean, he was a Supreme Leader but he was ultimately only human. Better than most humans, but still only human. What none of us could predict with any certainty was exactly when the old nutter would finally pop his Communist clogs. As a matter of fact, there was one source that predicted it: first-person shooter Homefront. Set in an "alternate reality" where tensions between North and South Korea were at breaking point, Homefront was actually closer to real life than it let on. In the game's back story they were just a couple of weeks off nailing the date Kim Jong-Il actually died, but the game was dead on when its fictional North Korea had the reigns of power passed onto Kim Jong-Un, and that in 2013 the country would start conducting nuclear tests. Thankfully absolutely nothing else from Homefront has come to pass, but those three coincidences are impressive enough to us.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
