The Sun: Unmarried Kim Yo-jong is North Korea’s most powerful woman after being elected to the hermit state’s powerful Central Committee this month aged just 29.
Now big brother Kim, 33, is looking for a spouse for his sister and will personally vet 30 likely candidates from the capital Pyongyang’s elite.
The selection process is similar to Paddy McGuinness’s hit ITV show where 30 lovelorn lasses vie for the attentions of one bloke.
But in leader Kim’s version the stakes are far higher – with the hand in marriage of the sister of the dumpy despot the prize.
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How to fail a Kim Jong-un matchmaking contest w/o raising suspicion you are just afraid to end up like the dear leader's uncle.
Nice to see a funny, non curmudgeon, post. I just got off the road, driving through northern Nevada, Idaho, Yellowstone and Montana. Spending the night in Bozeman. The West is this countries last bastion of free freedom and free thinking people. Simple pleasures like low room and gas taxes are nice. But the beauty! Stopped along the Gallatin River in Yellowstone to watch fly fishermen and kayakers. I do neither, but enjoy watching people do stuff they love. Big Sky country indeed.
Thanks for checking in dude.
North Korean version of "You Bet Your Life." Just make sure you don't say the secret word.
No, thank you for all the work you do in giving us a virtual tavern in which to converse. Listened to some of the Red Sox game on XM Radio. I like to flip around listening to games. Listened yesterday when Donaldson got run in the 1st inning. Joe and his partner analyzed that to death!. Before satellite radio, I would know all the AM stations for baseball and listen to games from the northeast to Colorado after sunset. The quality would fade in and out, depending on the atmospheric conditions. But w/ satellite, you can listen day or night. Driving on Sunday afternoons is heaven. I was in Yellowstone listening to the Royals/White Sox game. Only in America.
As an MLB subscriber I know just what you mean. I can watch/listen to any game, on any device, pause, rejoin or watch later, if I so choose.
It's a marvel of communication.
There's a Tom Hardy movie called Child 44. It didn't make much of a splash when it came out, but it seemed to me to be a realistic look at life in the Soviet Union. Hardy plays a secret police agent who investigates a series of child murders. It's a standard police procedural, but what gives it bite is the story of Hardy's romance and marriage. The object of his courtship knows that he works for the secret police. How do you say no to a member of the secret police who can arrest you and all your family. You don't. It's a marriage born in fear and cemented in distrust. The movie dramatized how awful it must be to live in a marriage like that.......Something like that must go on in this courtship. I don't envy the lucky winner.
If I got chosen for that game, I'd be like, "You know what, just put me in the shredder now or send me to a hard labor prison camp already."
Oh crap!!! Who wants to be the winner in this contest? Forced to marry the insane dictator's sister and have to walk on eggs for the rest of his (probably very short) life.
Do the losers in this contest get eliminated? I mean really eliminated.
The West is this countries last bastion of free freedom and free thinking people.
Welcome to my world Spinelli. Although I am technically in California, we are at the junction of the states of western Oregon, north east Nevada and Idaho is not far away either. State of Jefferson!!! If only....sigh.
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