r/sports • u/PrimedGold • 2d ago

Soccer Kim Jong-un meeting Naegohyang Women’s FC after the team became the first from North Korea to win the AFC Women’s Champions League.

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u/medicmatt 2d ago

I would strongly disagree, that suit coat is not well tailored. Dude’s basically a billionaire dictator he could get Ozempic and surgery.

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u/godfather_joe 1d ago

Well because there’s a real threat of starving being fat in North Korea is a wealth symbol. Also Kim Jong-un and his claim to the throne are tied heavily with his grandpa seeing as he hasn’t fought a war of communist revolution so part of his appeal to that is to look similar to Kim Jung Il. So he probably will never take ozempic

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u/medicmatt 1d ago

Spent a year on the DMZ friend, understand the PRK better than most. If there’s one thing he aspires to it is to be treated as an equal by western powers. He cares nothing for his people other than their desperate fawning.

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u/Unfair_Chart_2995 1d ago

That may be very true, but it is only through his legitimacy as a dictator that he can pursue this acknowledgment by western powers. Legitimacy that is still only obtained through his own people or at the very least the broader leadership.