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North Korea ordered citizens named Kim Jong Un to change their names, says new report
Washington Post ^ | 12/3/14 | Ishaan Tharoor

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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To: freedumb2003

or maybe... Kim Sam-Sung


21 posted on 12/03/2014 5:21:31 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

They must change their name to Barack Obama by January First.


22 posted on 12/03/2014 5:22:07 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: GeronL; DoodleDawg; TigerLikesRooster; BCW; Army Air Corps; gaijin; lefty-lie-spy
Or Maybe Just Sunny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodU7ZYi8lY


23 posted on 12/03/2014 5:26:15 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: DoodleDawg

Looks like an empire.


24 posted on 12/03/2014 5:29:42 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: KC_Lion

any type of western name is going to get you sent to a camp


25 posted on 12/03/2014 5:57:30 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: KC_Lion

and yes, Sunny rocks


26 posted on 12/03/2014 5:57:49 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: DoodleDawg

Kim Jong Two, Kim Jong Three,..........Kim Jong n, Kim Jong n+1.......


27 posted on 12/03/2014 6:34:41 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: KC_Lion

When watching Kpop and the hose involved in their respective companies - they are genuinely happy — and then the poor souls of the North...it is a shame we as a nation have let that go on for the amount of time it has...I pray that soon it is all over and that country collapses and the people of the north are free and Korea becomes one.


28 posted on 12/04/2014 2:42:21 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: beethovenfan
Kim Jong Two, Kim Jong Three,..........Kim Jong n, Kim Jong n+1.......

If not Kim Jong Un then how about Kim Jong Deux? Kim Jong Trois? Kim Jong Quatre?

29 posted on 12/04/2014 3:38:39 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

What’s Korean for Chubby Little Pork Chop?


30 posted on 12/04/2014 4:33:59 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: KC_Lion

Ya’ know....sometimes being old and feeble really... REALLY sucks. Oh well. MLK had a dream too I suppose ;)


31 posted on 12/04/2014 7:15:13 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Flag_This

You beat me to it, there can be only Un!


32 posted on 12/05/2014 8:18:35 AM PST by rdl6989
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