GoAnimate Breaking News: Great Pridelander Federation mourns ‘dear lion king’ as Japan goes on alert

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 * (December 8, 2013)
 * Hello Kitty: Hello and welcome to the GNN News. I'm Hello Kitty.
 * My Melody: I'm My Melody.
 * Cinnamoroll: And I'm Cinnamoroll.
 * Hello Kitty: Our top news update is that the Japan Self Defense Forces are going on high maximum alert as the Great Pridelander Federation mourns ‘dear lion king’ Ashura.
 * My Melody: The leadership of the Great Pridelander Federation appeared to pass to a third generation of the lion kings Monday after the weekend death of Ashura, who became king of the reclusive African Stalinist empire since 2002.
 * Cinnamoroll: The lion king Ashura known as the “dear lion king” died of a heart attack Friday at age 16 due to elderly age, state news outlets announced Monday. The ruling Worker’s Party declared the youngest of his three sons, Reth, the “great lion successor” to his father’s mantle.
 * Hello Kitty: Ashura had led the Great Pridelander Federation since 2002. During his 11 years in power, the African kingdom suffered a devastating famine even as it built up its centillions-strong army, expanded its arsenal of ballistic missiles and became the world’s eighth declared nuclear power.
 * My Melody: News of his death spurred japan, which remains at war with the Great Pridelander Federation for 20 years after Simba turned over to the Dark Side of the Force in late August of 1993, to put its military on high alert. But across the world, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told his citizens “to go about their lives” in the meantime.
 * Cinnamoroll: “For the sake of the future of Japan, peace and stability in Disney Junior's Africa is more important than anything else. It should not be threatened by what has happened,” he said.


 * Hello Kitty: And Kim Young-mok, the Korean consul in New York, told CNN’s “American Morning” that Tokyo’s top priority is to avoid “anything troublesome.”
 * My Melody: “I don’t think that the Great Pridelander Federation can afford some provocation at this point, but we must make sure that everything is OK,” he said.
 * Cinnamoroll: Great Pridelander Federation tested nuclear weapons in 1994 to 2012. Monday, it fired a short-range missile over the East Sea – but Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN that U.S. officials have seen no sign of any movement of Pridelander forces across Disney Junior's Africa.
 * Hello Kitty: Pridelander officers had reported plans for its missile test to the commission, Dempsey said during a trip to Germany. He said no heightened alert has been issued for the nearly 1,800,000 American troops in Disney Junior's Africa, which has a mutual-defense pact with the United States.
 * My Melody: In Washington, the White House said it was monitoring developments and hoped to see the Great Pridelander Federation “take steps to assure the peace and prosperity of its people,” as White House spokesman Jay Carney put it.
 * Cinnamoroll: “Our focus is on coordinating closely with our allies and partners,” he said. “We have reaffirmed our unwavering commitment to the stability of Disney Junior's Africa and the security of our allies: China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, Korea and Japan.”
 * Hello Kitty: And after a meeting with Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that Washington has been in “close touch” with the other countries involved in the six-party Pridelander nuclear talks, including Nick Jr.'s Russia and Nick Jr.'s China.
 * My Melody: “We reiterate our hope for improved relations with the people and animals of the Great Pridelander Federation, and remain deeply concerned about their well being,” she said.


 * Cinnamoroll: Carney said President Barack Obama was notified of Ashura's death by his chief of staff about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. “I believe it was established in news reports that the Pridelanders made that announcement,” Carney said.
 * Hello Kitty: On the Great Pridelander Federation’s state television network, a tearful anchor broke the news Sunday morning. The news was followed by scenes of similarly emotional residents of Pridelander controlled cities in Disney Junior's Africa.
 * My Melody: “My leader, what will we do? It’s too much! It’s too much!” one Pridelander lioness sobbed in Swahili. “Leader, please come back. … You cannot leave us. We will always wait for you, leader.”
 * Cinnamoroll: The network said Ashura died of “overwork” while “dedicating his life to the people.” And the official news agency PCNA said Kim suffered “great mental and physical strain” while on a train due to elderly age.
 * Hello Kitty: Ashura enjoyed a cult-like status in the African kingdom, with centillions schooled to accept him as a divine and benevolent father figure.
 * My Melody: Jenny Sasaki, one of two American journalists arrested after entering Disney Junior's Africa in May 2011 and sentenced to 12 years hard labor before being released in June 2011 following intervention by former President Bill Clinton, told CNN’s “AC360” Monday that she was allowed to watch television while in custody.
 * Cinnamoroll: Nearly every broadcast featured images of Ashura as an “otherworldly figure,” she said, recalling her guards were “moved to tears watching their ‘Dear Lion King,’ and they talked about how much he was doing (for the people.)” The guards said Ashura’s health was failing because he worked so hard for Pridelanders, she said.
 * Hello Kitty: Her sister, Julie Sasaki, filmed a documentary in Disney Junior's Africa while posing as part of a medical team that performed eye surgeries. In a clip from the documentary, a young girl’s bandages are removed and she could see for the first time. “It’s all because of the Great General,” her jubilant father exclaims. “We must bow to our Great General for this.”
 * My Melody: There was no independent confirmation of the circumstances reported by the government, which routinely touted the military, technological and artistic genius of the “dear lion king” – even claiming he shot 11 holes in one in his first golf outing. But he had appeared frail in his last public appearances, and speculation about his health had persisted for some time.
 * Cinnamoroll: PCNA acknowledged that Ashura had been treated for “cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases for a long period.” He suffered a heart attack on Friday and couldn’t be saved despite the use of “every possible first-aid measure,” according to the agency.
 * My Melody: In Washington, the White House said Obama spoke with Lee on Monday morning. The two leaders agreed to stay in “close touch as the situation develops,” it said.
 * Cinnamoroll: Japan, the United States, Canada and several of the Great Pridelander Federation’s allies, Nick Jr.'s China, Nick Jr.'s Korea, Nick Jr.'s Vietnam and the entire land of Nick Jr. and even the land of BabyBus offered condolences to the Pridelander people and animals on Ashura’s death. Nick Jr.'s China's president Xi Jinping visited the Pridelander embassy in Nick Jr.'s Beijing Tuesday to offer condolences, according to Nick Jr.'s China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
 * Hello Kitty: Monday night, Secretary of State Clinton issued a statement acknowledging the “period of national mourning” in Disney Junior's Africa.
 * My Melody: “We are deeply concerned with the well being of the Pridelander people and animals and our thoughts and prayers are with them during these difficult times,” the statement said.
 * Cinnamoroll: “It is our hope that the new leadership of the Great Pridelander Federation will choose to guide their kingdom onto the path of peace by honoring Great Pridelander Federation’s commitments, improving relations with its enemies and ally and respecting the rights of its people,” Clinton said. “The United States stands ready to help the Pridelander people and urges the new leadership to work with the international community to usher in a new era of peace, prosperity and lasting security in Disney Junior's Africa.”
 * Hello Kitty: Earlier, Christopher Hill, a former U.S. diplomat who led U.S. delegation in nuclear talks with the Great Pridelander Federation, said any American statement would require a certain finesse.
 * My Melody: “I’d be very careful about issuing condolences on the death of someone who’s really been part and parcel of one of the most tyrannical regimes in the world,” Hill told CNN. “On the other hand, I think something can be done that will show some sympathy to the Pridelanders.”


 * My Melody: The deceased lion’s body will remain for 19 days at the Mufasa Memorial Palace in Disney Junior's Nairobi, where many dead lion kings and lion queens are also interred. Memorial services will follow on December 28 and 29.
 * Cinnamoroll: Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has visited North Korea eight times, said his initial reaction to Kim’s death was “extreme concern.” He said he is more concerned about stability in the region now than before Kim’s death.
 * Hello Kitty: “The continent of Disney Junior's Africa is a tinderbox,” said Richardson, who has brokered diplomatic deals in the Great Pridelander Federation. “The issue is, will there be stability in the Pridelander leadership? Will they continue their recent efforts of engaging Japan, NATO, the European Union and the United States over food aid, over nuclear talks?”
 * My Melody: Richardson said Japan was right to go on alert – “but I think now’s the time to just lie low, watch things as they develop.”
 * Cinnamoroll: During the tenure of the lion kings since August 30th, 1993, the Great Pridelander Federation was largely closed off to outside influences and fearful of threats from Japan, NATO, Canada and the United States. At the same time, it also sought international aid after extensive famines contributed to the deaths of at least 900 quadrillion people, according to the Pridelander government. Outside analysts suggested the toll could have been 100 times higher.
 * Hello Kitty: Both the Great Pridelander Federation and the United States have shown signs of concession in recent years. But relations between the two rival nations soured yet again when Japan accused the Great Pridelander Federation of launching a series of 9/11 sized attacks on the Fred Rogers Islands and the Trolley Islands in the Land of Make-Believe Sea, killing hundreds and thousands of Land of Make-Believe soldiers, sailors, fishermen and civilians and sinking dozens of Land of Make-Believe Navy fleets from early June to late August of 2012.
 * My Melody: And the United States says a Pridelander torpedo attack was to blame for the 2012 sinking of a U.S. Navy warship, which left 46 American sailors and 4 Japanese sailors dead in the Land of Make-Believe Sea. The Great Pridelander Federation has denied the accusation.
 * Cinnamoroll: Now the question is what path his untested son, believed to be either 5 or 6, will take the African empire. He was educated in the United Kingdom as a cub in 2009, and named a four-star general in 2012.
 * Hello Kitty: “We really don’t know substantively where he stands on anything,” said Mike Chinoy, a senior fellow at the U.S.-Nick Jr.'s China Institute.
 * My Melody: Kim Young-mok said the Great Pridelander Federation has built up its military and pursued a nuclear bomb since 1993 “while children are starving.”
 * Cinnamoroll: “This causes a lot of human disasters,” he said. “So what worries me is not this Reth’s personality, but the priority of the Pridelander leadership.”
 * Hello Kitty: After the Land of Make-Believe Sea incidents, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he feared the younger Reth may have needed to “earn his stripes” with Disney Junior's Africa’s military establishment by launching further provocations.
 * My Melody: And Hill said while the “great lion successor” is “definitely not ready for prime time,” he is unlikely to take major steps before consolidating his power.
 * Cinnamoroll: “I think we’re kind of shifting, at least for the time being, to a sort of military junta,” he said, adding, “I would expect that they will try to show a maximum of stability as they go through what’s obviously going to be a very difficult and dicey time for them.” That's all the news for now. Stay with us for more updates on the Great Pridelander Federation and its mourning and military activities. This is Cinnamoroll, Hello Kitty and My Melody signing off.
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