Tuesday, 8 February 2011

The Kremlinology of North Korea: "Furry Hat Offers Clues to Progress of N.Korean Succession", Chosun Ilbo

Chosun Ilbo reports that Kim Jong-Eun has now graduated to wearing the same kind of ugly, furry hat that his father does.


A senior South Korean government official last Friday said Kim Jong-un seems to have moved up to the same rank as his father. "The most conspicuous sign is that Kim Jong-un has started wearing a top-quality furry hat that only Kim Jong-il has been wearing so far," the official added.
A former senior North Korean official identified as Choi, who has defected to South Korea, said, "The hat was customized by a foreign master craftsman using top-quality otter fur. It's an unwritten rule that nobody else can wear such a hat, so if Kim Jong-un is also wearing one, it means he has now reached almost the same status as his father."
Just kind of underscores how little concept we have of what's going on in the North Korean government, don't you think?

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