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N. Korea: Kim Jong-un lookalike turns heads in Hong Kong
Telegraph ^ | 13 Nov 2013

Posted on 11/16/2013 4:13:59 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Kim Jong-un lookalike turns heads in Hong Kong

A 35-year-old musician from Hong Kong has become the world's first professional Kim Jong-un impersonator after a picture of himself posing as the Dear Leader went viral on the internet

Howard, who refuses to give his surname for fear of reprisals from the secretive state, said he has had to endure endless jokes since Kim Jong-un became leader of North Korea in December 2011.

But when a picture of himself posing as the Dear Leader went viral on Facebook last April, the reaction prompted him to set up a site advertising his body-double services.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hongkong; kimjongeun

1 posted on 11/16/2013 4:13:59 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

2 posted on 11/16/2013 4:16:11 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I liked that the last part of the article was “it’s always nice to go back home”.

Seems level-headed.

Good for him.


3 posted on 11/16/2013 4:18:34 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The hair style is … ah, unique.


4 posted on 11/16/2013 4:18:35 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers
Late 40’s Soviet-style haircut.
5 posted on 11/16/2013 4:23:24 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
He should do a music video with Psy. It'd drive the Norks crazy!


6 posted on 11/16/2013 4:28:46 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Like that: “look unhappy and dissatisfied.”


7 posted on 11/16/2013 4:38:33 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: luvbach1

> Like that: “look unhappy and dissatisfied.”

And eat and eat and eat even more...lol

He should be expecting a door knock about any minute now...


8 posted on 11/16/2013 4:46:30 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"The key to becoming Kim is to always look unhappy and dissatisfied. It is his trademark," he said.

Pair him up with grumpy cat!


9 posted on 11/16/2013 5:39:21 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Is that Obama on his lapel pin?


10 posted on 11/16/2013 6:47:57 AM PST by albie
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To: Dr. Sivana

OHH Grumpy cat he so cute Yeah team him up with Grumpy cat that would work for me LOL!


11 posted on 11/16/2013 8:04:21 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

In the end, there can be only Un.


12 posted on 11/16/2013 8:08:47 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Dr. Sivana

Wonder where his fingernails are? Looks like he chews hell out of them or cuts them extremely close.


13 posted on 11/16/2013 11:10:22 AM PST by miele man
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SevenofNine; Charles Henrickson
SOUTH KOREA

IS BEST KOREA

14 posted on 11/16/2013 12:05:57 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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