"Uhhuh, I'm a kirrur rith duh radies."
Posted on 08/30/2013 8:22:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kim Jong-un's approval rating higher than Barack Obama's
Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has a public approval rating of over 50 per cent, according to a poll of escapees living in South Korea.
By Julian Ryall, Tokyo and Chris Irvine
3:27PM BST 30 Aug 2013
Despite reports of him purging army generals and executing former girlfriends by firing squad, a survey carried out by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University on 133 North Korean defectors found that 61.7 per cent believed he had the majority support of his people.
Although not strictly scientifically accurate, as it polls defectors rather than people currently living there, such a result makes him more popular than his father, Kim Jong-il, while it also compares favourably to Barack Obama, who is struggling at 41 per cent approval, and David Cameron, who scored 38 per cent.
Mr Kim is meanwhile said to be keeping up his purge of undesirable elements within the upper echelons of North Korean society with the reported sacking of his hawkish army chief.
Kim Kyok-sik, who is believed to have been behind the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan and the bombardment of Yeonpyeong Island in late 2010, has disappeared from the list of senior regime officials attending public events in recent weeks.
"We are closely watching developments in the North, believing that Kim Kyok-sik has been replaced by Ri Yong-gil, the chief of operations for the Army General Staff," a source in the South Korean government told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.
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"Uhhuh, I'm a kirrur rith duh radies."
HMMM perhaps I know Libs on Huffington Post are not too happy since it is AOL News feed
And that’s AFTER he machine-gunned his ex-girl friend.
We can see almost the same level of irrational veneration live by visiting any liberal in our own country.
True true.
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