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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or maybe... Kim Sam-Sung
They must change their name to Barack Obama by January First.
Looks like an empire.
any type of western name is going to get you sent to a camp
and yes, Sunny rocks
Kim Jong Two, Kim Jong Three,..........Kim Jong n, Kim Jong n+1.......
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.
If not Kim Jong Un then how about Kim Jong Deux? Kim Jong Trois? Kim Jong Quatre?
What’s Korean for Chubby Little Pork Chop?
Ya’ know....sometimes being old and feeble really... REALLY sucks. Oh well. MLK had a dream too I suppose ;)
You beat me to it, there can be only Un!
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