North Korea's Kim appears in public (looking frail)

[Coventina]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Seoul -- There was pomp and circumstance, huge adoring crowds -- not to mention one heck of a lot of choreographed propaganda.

A frail-looking Kim Jong Il, North Korea's paternal "Dear Leader," appeared Thursday before the newly elected Supreme People's Assembly, which reappointed him as the nation's reigning military chief.

The 67-year-old leader, who reportedly suffered a stroke last year, bringing rumors of a possible succession, has turned North Korea "into an invincible political and ideological, military and scientific and technological power," trumpeted the government-controlled Korean Central News Agency.

A photograph released Wednesday by North Korea shows thousands of smiling celebrants in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square. Many are dressed in traditional Korean clothing. All are clapping in unison under a banner that reads "Hurray for Great Victory of Songun Politics."

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-north-korea-kim10-2009apr10,0,3212462.story

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I just woke up, but I first read that last sentence as "Hungry for Great Victory..."

(Hungry I'm sure they are!)

[non sociopath skin]

1. Was the banner in Korean or English?

Whichever, someone urgently needs to hire a new translator. :evilgrin:

The Skin

[lonestarnot]

2. And half asleep, I read your first sentence as "plump" rather than "pomp" and figured

he ate some more North Koreans. :evilgrin: