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‘I have failed' - Kim Jong Un shows tearful side in confronting North Korea's hardships
Yahoo News ^ | October 12, 2020 | Josh Smith

Posted on 10/12/2020 5:11:11 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to shed tears at the weekend as he thanked citizens for their sacrifices, in the most striking demonstration yet of how he is relying on his "man of the people" persona to tackle his country's deepening crises.

Though the young leader has consolidated his rule over the isolated nation with ruthless purges, North Korea watchers say he has also sought to portray himself as a more traditional political leader than his eccentric father, Kim Jong Il.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: china; japan; kimjongun; korea; maga; northkorea; pyongyang; republicofkorea; russia; southkorea; trump
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Wow! I wonder how the North Korean military brass is reacting to him tearing up for the world to see?
1 posted on 10/12/2020 5:11:11 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

What a complete loser.


2 posted on 10/12/2020 5:12:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: White Lives Matter

If any one of them were to so much as blink, they would be executed.


3 posted on 10/12/2020 5:13:26 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: White Lives Matter

Will he commit suicide with an anti-aircraft cannon? A flammenwerfer?


4 posted on 10/12/2020 5:13:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: White Lives Matter
When Trump wins, Kim's sister will assume power and transform the country into another SK, or possibly merge and become Korea again.
5 posted on 10/12/2020 5:13:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: White Lives Matter

This earns the anti-aircraft gun treatment for one of his generals!


6 posted on 10/12/2020 5:14:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Elections have consequences. We won, you lost. Get over it." --Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Army Air Corps

For your interest!


7 posted on 10/12/2020 5:15:40 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: White Lives Matter

Go kill yourself, fatso.


8 posted on 10/12/2020 5:17:08 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The COVERUP has been going on for over 4 YEARS.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

look at her eyes. Those are not eyes of a person who would do such things


9 posted on 10/12/2020 5:20:31 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Hidey Ho for Alcatraz 2020)
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To: White Lives Matter
Leave Kim alone!


10 posted on 10/12/2020 5:22:38 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
If he hasn't had his barber executed yet, he's not as bad as they say.

11 posted on 10/12/2020 5:23:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SkyDancer

The latter option would be defined as Korean Barbecue.


12 posted on 10/12/2020 5:23:47 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: White Lives Matter

Kim, it’s time to accept PDJT’s offer to help modernize NKorea.


13 posted on 10/12/2020 5:25:47 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Do you smoke crack on a regular basis?

Are you even sure of whom you’re talking about at times?

Cause I’m not sure :)

She’s a NUT and worse than him and will do NEITHER.


14 posted on 10/12/2020 5:26:11 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Kim, didn’t anybody tell you that ‘There is no crying in genocide!” So cut the Kabuki theater.


15 posted on 10/12/2020 5:28:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SpaceBar
Here's the benchmark in this regard


16 posted on 10/12/2020 5:29:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: White Lives Matter

The problem with being a dictator, is that you could’nt liberalize things even if you wanted to. Too many hangers on depend on the status quo for their “good life”, and would kill you trying to defend it.


17 posted on 10/12/2020 5:31:06 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No doubt! Plus his speech writer.


18 posted on 10/12/2020 5:31:10 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: Freee-dame

Exactly.

Surrender to peach with the south and in just days your DMZ soldiers can be riding luxury South Korean motor coaches back to their home towns their backpacks heavy with frozen chicken, pork, and beef.


19 posted on 10/12/2020 5:31:54 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: White Lives Matter

His sister will not like this!


20 posted on 10/12/2020 5:31:56 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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