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Reuters Hypes Laughable North Korea Ruler 'Sharp Change'
NewsBusters ^ | June 18, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 07/18/2012 9:32:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea who inherited his position from daddy, Kim Jong-il, now has another toy to play with thanks to being fortunate enough to live through birth. Although the bloated young Kim appears as if he would have difficulty performing even one boot camp pushup, he has just been given control of the entire military due to his promotion to grand marshal of the army.

Jack Kim (no known relation to guess who) of Reuters wrote up the story about this not exactly merit-based promotion. However, Mr. Kim also gave us a buildup about some "sharp change" in North Korea that turned out to be a highly laughable letdown. First the "sharp change" hype:

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: lilkim; northkorea; reuters
Li'l Kim gets an entire army to play with. He is as qualified to be marshal of the army as Obama is to be...
1 posted on 07/18/2012 9:32:48 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Good news, modern rulers usually make bad military decisions that lose battles and wars.
2 posted on 07/18/2012 9:42:23 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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Good news, modern rulers usually make bad military decisions that lose battles and wars.
3 posted on 07/18/2012 9:42:31 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Little Kimmy is the raffing stock of the world.

4 posted on 07/18/2012 10:04:44 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: 2001convSVT

>>Good news, modern rulers usually make bad military decisions that lose battles and wars.<<

Bad news, thousands of innocent folks will perish.


5 posted on 07/18/2012 11:56:23 AM PDT by servantboy777
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6 posted on 07/18/2012 11:57:47 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Meet the new Puggsly. Same as the old Puggsly.


7 posted on 07/18/2012 12:00:40 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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