Grampa in Old Days: Kim Il-sung
Grandson Today: Kim Jong-eun
Posted on 06/28/2011 8:16:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Plastic surgery to look like grandpa
June 29, 2011
LONDON - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s heir apparent son, Kim Jong-un, has undergone plastic surgery six times to look more like his late grandfather and the nation’s founder, the chief of a radio station specializing in North Korean affairs claimed yesterday.
Ha Tae-kyung, head of Open Radio for North Korea, cited unidentified senior North Korean officials and claimed that the North’s leader-in-waiting had the operations between 2007 and 2010 before he officially debuted as successor last September.
Ha made the remarks in a speech on North Korea’s power succession during an international defense forum hosted by the London-based Royal United Services Institute.
Believed to be in his late 20s, Kim was given the title of four-star general and named the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party in what was believed to be Pyongyang’s first official steps to put him in line to succeed his father.
It is not the first time that Kim was rumored to have undergone plastic surgery.
Rumors began after photographs of Kim looking chubby and with facial features similar to his grandfather were released shortly after the political event.
Ha claimed that the surgery was aimed at creating an image similar to that of his charismatic grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, to boost his position as the country’s next leader.
The succession, if made, would mark communism’s second hereditary power transfer. The elder Kim inherited power from his father, who died in 1994.
Ha also said that Pyongyang is working on consolidating the heir apparent’s power after his leadership was undermined following failed attempts to reform the impoverished nation’s currency system in 2009.
The reform move is believed to have caused strong public backlash as it led to massive inflation and worsened food shortages.
But, it is a dictatorship. Why does he need to appear popular? Don’t they simply kill you if you don’t like the leadership?
The Kim cult has to be maintained. If not, nobody will kill for Kim’s.
That explains why he looks like him.
Sicko
Just when I think humanity can’t get much more bizarre.
May the whole family soon look exactly like Grandpa.
The Kims seem to be under the impression that there will continue to be a North Korea long enough for a handover to take place. Plus isn’t it usually the third generation that generally loses it all?
Tiger sound like maybe number three son is not Chia Pet real kid if they keep pushing plastic surgery make him more like Grandpa Kim Jong Sun Founder of NK
Tiger sound like maybe number three son is not Chia Pet real kid if they keep pushing plastic surgery make him more like Grandpa Kim Jong Sun Founder of NK
WHOA Tiger check this out
AP The Associated Press
AP, North Korea’s state news agency agree to open an AP news bureau in Pyongyang. http://t.co/xbZq12C -LM
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