North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a women's soccer match between the national team and the Wolmido team at the remodelled May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2014, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on Oct. 29, 2014. KCNA/Reuters
North Korea Decrees No One Else Can Be Named Kim Jong-un -- ABC News
North Korea has decreed that no one else can have a name that is similar to the name of their dictator Kim Jong-un, and those that have the name Jong-un must get a new name.
Jong-un is a common Korean name for both men and women.
A document dated Jan. 5, 2011 -- a few months after Kim was publicly named as the next heir to his father Kim Jong-il -- recently came to light detailing the Kim's sole claim to the name.
The document instructed officials of the Workers’ party and public security agencies to make sure that people already named Jong-un voluntarily adopt new names, according to South Korea’s national broadcaster KBS.
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More News On North Korea Declaring That No One Else Can Be Named Kim Jong-un
N Korea bans sharing of leader Kim Jong-un's name -- BBC
In Korean kingdom, there shall be no Kim Jong-uns but one -- CSM/AP
North Korea bans citizens from using name Kim Jong Un -- UPI
I am the Un and only: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un bans anyone from sharing his name with edict saying they must be 'trained' to change it -- Daily Mail
There Can Only Be One Kim Jong-Un -- Atlantic
North Korea reportedly bans anyone sharing Kim Jong Un's name -- FOX News
North Korea ordered citizens named Kim Jong Un to change their names, says new report -- Washington Post
Somebodies not clapping (behind Kim's left shoulder), he better have special juice or it's the mortar round dance for him.
ReplyDeleteYou know James .... I am willing to bet that someone probably told this officer that he was not clapping .... and he better watch out.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the story I heard of Stalin's applause light he had installed for his Soviet Plenum speeches.
ReplyDeleteJames .... one of the stories that I remember from my father is his description on how they had to sing songs praising Stalin in his school (in Kiev) for all the food that he was giving to them during the height of the Ukraine famine (Stalin was actually giving nothing but taking everything).
ReplyDeleteDuring the Russian October crisis of 1993, I was with my uncle (I was acting as his aide) and I had the opportunity to sit at Stalin's desk in his old office in the Kremlin (apparently it is still there untouched) .... I cannot even describe in words the feelings that I had just sitting there at his desk .... the evil imprint in that room is indescribable.
Ah, I can believe it. One of the few reasons I hope for a afterlife is for there to be just punishment for such as him, though what would be appropriate for him is hard to imagine.
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