Posted on 02/12/2016 5:37:08 PM PST by IncPen
He might hate the United States, but he sure digs those designed-in-California computers.
You probably wouldn’t take Kim Jong-un as a Mac user. Usually, in photos of him checking out military computers, we see the North Korean dictator in front of a P.C.
[Image: AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS]
However, a handful of photos of the supreme leader at his own desk show him with Macs, leading to the assumption that while the military may use PCs, his personal preference is Mac.
For example, Reuters correspondent James Pearson, who covers North Korea and South Korea, tweeted out this image earlier today:
There are other images, including a 2013 image of Kim Jong-un at his desk with an iMac
[Image: KCNA via Logsoku]
That same year, South Korean newspaper Chosun published this photo from North Korean Central News Agency, which shows an Apple iMac.
[Image via Chosun]
It might be easy to write these off as inconsequential, but considering how North Korea’s own homegrown OS is, as our colleagues at Gizmodo say, a “delightful Mac OS X knockoff.â€
[Image via Gizmodo]
The strongest Mac connection, however, is that Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il was a Mac user. Google, sorry Alphabet Inc., president Eric Schmidt visited North Korea a few years back with his daughter Sophie.
After visiting Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the giant state mausoleum, Sophie Schmidt recalled (via Gizmodo):
Also lying in state: the late Leaders’ cars, train compartments and even a yacht, all preserved in their former glory. Even Kim Jong Il’s platform shoes were on display. I was delighted to learn that he and I shared a taste in laptops: 15" Macbook Pro.
Kim Jong-il apparently died in his mobile office on train, and the Macbook Pro can apparently be seen in this photo of the preserved train coach.
So, like father, like son?
Top image: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File
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I am powerless.
I’ve been called two out of three. I have to get ready for work.
I’ll never say the one i’m not :)
You’re among FRiends.
We get it.
Same here but I’ve never used a Mac.
+1. lol....
I know actor Seth Rogen is a big-time leftist, but if you get the chance, see The Interview. It is absolutely hilarious and nails NK.
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Apple products bring out the dictator in folks.
“Apple, the #1 choice of genocidal tyrants!”
See, Incpen? Didn't I tell you this would be the typical reaction? Just nine posts and here it is.
Hey, they're made up the street in China. It's like tyranny is embedded in them or something.
Rest easy, my friend.
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One out of nine would make it atypical, not typical.
So are you saying the glass is half empty?
You see Kim in front of the computer but his lackeys have pen and paper, no electronic tablets or smart devices.
By the time you posted that, it was two out of ten. . . 20%. It's a knee jerk reaction from the anti-Apple people, which is what I predicted.
It can be every one of them from here on out, and not change the fact they you declared it to be "typical" when it was at 11%.
I was looking at the mousepad near The Bern’s PC. I half expected to see “Property of USSR” but it’s just a US Senate pad.
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