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UPDATE: Kim Jong Eun to Iran? No, Kim Yong Nam
WSJ ^ | 08/22/12 | Evan Ramstad

Posted on 08/23/2012 4:45:28 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

UPDATE: Kim Jong Eun to Iran? No, Kim Yong Nam

August 22, 2012, 6:54 PM KST

By Evan Ramstad

A report that suggested North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun might travel to Iran lit up the North Korea watch-o-sphere Wednesday.

But it appeared to be a misunderstanding over the role of Kim Yong Nam, the poor old guy who has the biggest title in the North’s government but has always been second fiddle to the leader from the family of Kim Il Sung.

The German news agency DPA, citing an Iranian news website Tabnak, got the report going around the world that Kim Jong Eun would be attending the Non-Aligned Movement summit next week in Tehran.

If true, it would mark the first overseas trip for the young Kim. And the destination would raise eyebrows, if not alarms, in the U.S. and other countries that have been trying to get Iran and North Korea to curtail their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; kimjongeun; nkorea

1 posted on 08/23/2012 4:45:45 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 08/23/2012 4:46:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Sounds like a real Mickey Mouse operation over there, oh wait:
Kim Jong Un LIKES Mickey Mouse!

3 posted on 08/23/2012 5:11:20 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama squats to pee.)
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