No good late, it should never have happened, Anna Wintour has repudiated her admiration for Asma Assad. As the fragrant smell dissipates in the desert breeze, Joohee Choe of ABC has leapt into the maws of stupidity with a piece praising the sartorial tastes and community spirit of Kim Jung-eun:
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Attempting to forge a new image for himself and his country, North Korea’s youthful supreme leader Kim Jong Un is allowing women to wear pants, platform shoes and earrings, making more mobile phones available, endorsing previously banned foods like pizza, French fries and hamburgers — and he’s giving kids free trips to zoos and amusement parks.
The 20-something leader’s focus has been on the younger generation. Following in the footsteps of his late grandfather, the country’s founder Kim Il Sung, he has announcing plans to create a “children’s heaven nation.”
“It’s all part of his image making to imitate a warm, fatherly impression like his grandfather,” said Dong Yong-Sueng, North Korea specialist at Samsung Economic Research Institute.
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Well, I suppose that with the pursuit of a new Holodomor, there soon will be many millions of North Koreans who can fit into the dinkiest wee dress on the peg. And maybe the promises of the fayre is to recreate happy memories of trips abroad, as suggestions are made that it was not only his brother, Kim Jong-nam who visited Tokyo Disneyland.
I only can assume Christine Ahn was taking a day off from the stupid office.
(The accompanying photograph comes from Song Byeok who produced Juche artwork until his defection in 2002. He now parodies his former earnest work.)
