I see the death of Christopher Hitchens as having far more impact on the world than that of Kim Jong-Ill. These are the sorts of countries whose leaders are all the same, the country is run like a militarized cult and until we invade or they have a magic spell cast over them, they won't change for some time. The death of Christopher Hitchens is far more influential and will be seen, for a long time to come, as a great loss to humanity. Kim Jong-Ill, Osama, Gaddafi, Castro, Hussein, all of them have and will be replaced will people of a similar nature.