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To: COBOL2Java
How about O'ren Ishii?


5 posted on 03/20/2017 7:19:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Those two ought to team up!


6 posted on 03/20/2017 7:27:06 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good background on Han-sol etc:

What distinguishes Kim Han-sol is his lineage. His father was the first son of the previous Great Leader, Kim Jong-il, which means that Han-sol can claim a direct line of descent from North Korea’s founding leader, Kim Il-sung. In North Korea, the Great Leader concept blends several ideas that run through Korean history: an almighty God, the Confucian worship of a parent, and a king with the Mandate of Heaven. The Great Leader myth was also built around what North Koreans call the Baekdu hyultong, or Baekdu bloodline, named after Mt. Baekdu, the tallest mountain in Korea and a symbol of Korean nationalism, which has supposedly blessed the Kim family with its holy energy.

Some thirty thousand North Koreans have defected to South Korea over the years, but politically connected individuals have sometimes sought to put more distance between themselves and the regime. Kim Han-sol and his family surely remember the fate of Lee Han-yong, a cousin of Kim Han-sol’s father, who defected to Seoul in 1982 and published a book critical of the regime in 1996, only to be killed by North Korean agents a year later.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-extraordinary-statement-from-a-north-korean-prince


10 posted on 03/20/2017 10:27:55 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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