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North Korea's New Image Shaped by Platform Shoes, Earrings and Cell Phones
http://news.yahoo.com/ ^

Posted on 07/02/2012 3:54:54 PM PDT by jakerobins

Attempting to forge a new image for himself and his country, North Korea's youthful supreme leader Kim Jong Un is allowing women to wear pants, platform shoes and earrings, making more mobile phones available, endorsing previously banned foods like pizza, French fries and hamburgers — and he's giving kids free trips to zoos and amusement parks.

The 20-something leader's focus has been on the younger generation. Following in the footsteps of his late grandfather, the country's founder Kim Il Sung, he has announcing plans to create a "children's heaven nation."

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Kim Jong-Um.... endorsing previously banned foods like pizza, French fries and hamburgers

Who didn't see that coming with the Great Eater in charge! LOL.....

1 posted on 07/02/2012 3:54:56 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: jakerobins

I’m waiting to see the first McDonalds/Burger King/KFC/Popa Johns - Murphy/Olive Garden .... but you get my drift.


2 posted on 07/02/2012 4:00:27 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: jakerobins

Meanwhile 98% of the population is starving. They should put Fat-Un on a spit.


3 posted on 07/02/2012 4:03:02 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: jakerobins

And he is going to pay for this children’s heaven, how? Sounds like an attempt to swindle the west for some cash. I mean it is for the children and all.


4 posted on 07/02/2012 4:16:23 PM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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To: jakerobins

a “children’s heaven nation.”

So, that would be where North Korean children go
after they starve to death?


5 posted on 07/02/2012 4:16:37 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Shoes for industry.
Shoes for the dead.
What chance does a returning deceased war veteran
have for that new mule he’s been dreaming about?


6 posted on 07/02/2012 4:18:46 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jakerobins

Lipstick on a pig! My apologies to all pigs out there.....


7 posted on 07/02/2012 4:20:27 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: jakerobins

Platform shoes...gave me a flashback to 1975. I’m just glad Facebook and YouTube weren’t around then.


8 posted on 07/02/2012 4:25:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: tet68
Firesign Theater. That brought back memories.

"Porgy Ti-i-i-i-i-rebiter!"

9 posted on 07/02/2012 4:26:40 PM PDT by Publius (Leadershiup starts with getting off the couch.)
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you remember Firesign Theater too?


10 posted on 07/02/2012 4:36:43 PM PDT by brivette
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To: Publius
Commie Martyrs High School.
Kim Jong Phat be stylin at the prom.


11 posted on 07/02/2012 4:37:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: brivette

I think we’re all Bozo’s on this bus..


12 posted on 07/02/2012 4:38:02 PM PDT by brivette
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To: brivette

The whole “High School Madness” takeoff on the Henry Aldrich movies was hilarious and on the mark. The idea of somebody actually stealing Morse Scince High School was one of the funniest things I can remember. I still use the line, “She has a balcony you can do Shakespeare from.”


13 posted on 07/02/2012 4:40:52 PM PDT by Publius (Leadershiup starts with getting off the couch.)
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To: jakerobins

Weird how we live in a time where the biggest increase in individual liberty is occurring in North Korea, but then these are weird times.


14 posted on 07/02/2012 4:54:36 PM PDT by SquarePants
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To: jakerobins

Gay Commies — not new.

We’ve had them here for a decade or so.


15 posted on 07/02/2012 4:57:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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