Posted on 12/03/2014 3:24:35 PM PST by DoodleDawg
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's young dictator, sits at the top of a nation that for decades has enshrined the ruling Kim dynasty as demigods. The personality cult that surrounds the hermit kingdom's leadership is one of the strange realities of this pariah state, spawning eerie totalitarian spectacles and the most vigorous displays of clapping the world has ever seen.
It also leads to whole ranks of the population having to surrender their names.
According to a new report on a South Korean TV station, North Korean authorities issued a directive in 2011 — when Kim Jong Un came to power after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il — to reject birth certificates of newborns named Kim Jong Un and to revise the official documentation and identity cards of those who still had that name.
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I really do believe that this is the logical end result of liberal Statism. It starts out as the Welfare State who hands out government goodies to everyone, trading security for freedom. Ultimately, it becomes as despotic as ancient Egypt or Rome, where the emperor was a God.
He’s a friggin’ ding bat.
Kim Chee is the new Kim Jung....
I hope they all changed their names to “Psy.”
To #2. Oh, you mean Obama is like Kim, an “emperor” who “was a God” in his own mind.
Sum Ting Wong
Wi Tu Lo
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Ow.
“There can be only one, Highrander!”
LOL, I remember when Rush was rattling these names off trying not to laugh...
“One ling, to bind them arr”
Rold Of the Lings.
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She kept her job, but three producers were fired.
One can only guess what happens to the one that share his name but I’ll bet they aren’t among the living anymore...
They should change there names to “Not Chia Head Un”.
How many will be Kim Jong Ummm, Ummm, Uhhhh, Ummm....
I have many Chinese-born friends, who are all now proud American citizens. They’ve taken American-style names, like Chester, Robert, Joy, etc.. I thought it was only fair that I should be able to take a Chinese-style name. I am Hu Duck Xing, The Tiger at The Duck Crossing!
ROR!
I have not laughed harder in years than I did after I read about that prank.
All of them became Kim Sam-Soon
lol
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