Kim's son lives it up as North Koreans starve

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/wnkorea02.xml

The son of Kim Jong-il, North Korea's reclusive dictator, has been living in five-star luxury in the gambling haven of Macau even as his people starve, according to reports in Hong Kong yesterday.

Kim Jong-nam, 35, was tracked to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where he has been staying on and off for three years. While the international community alternates sanctions on his father for his nuclear weapons programme with economic aid for his starving subjects, the younger Kim has been spotted gambling in Macau's numerous casinos and eating in local restaurants, according to the South China Morning Post.

He was educated partly in Switzerland, but first came to public prominence in the West when he was caught travelling on a false passport at Tokyo airport in 2001. He told immigration officials that he wanted to take his young son to Tokyo Disneyland.

Since then, indications are that he has been in disgrace with his father and has been excluded from the succession, probably in favour of his half-brother, Kim Jong-chol, 23.

Not that I give a rat's ass about North Korea, but I can pick out some irony when it shows.

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North Korea is hell on earth. People literally die in the streets of starvation. It's the most politically repressed state on earth; the slightest inclining that someone doesn't worship the dictator and that person dies. It's as Orwellian as it gets. How can people not feel sorry for what they go through?

... 30% still blindly march to the tune of our own tinpot dicktater and we continue to send billions of dollars to the war profiteers and their filthy rich families rather than take care of our own starving, homeless people.

What's that old statement about keeping one's own front porch cleaned before commenting on a neighbor's ?

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NK is many times worse than what we got here - it is surely not the "same" thing.

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Please point out - specifically, and with facts - what in my post was an exaggeration?

Thank you.

that starve 10% of the population to death....you sounded like you said NK and the Us have problems that are about the same - we have our problems, and they could get worse with * and his cabal, but we are nowhere near as bad as NK.

You seriously think what is happening in North Korea is the same as in the U.S.?

My thought exactly!

brought down to our level. We are second or even third class citizens.

we should invade NK & bring them democracy.

half :sarcasm:

one country has the power to do something about NK: china. that's it. only china.

How exactly is this lifestyle funded?

...killing a few million of them.

"We're here to help!"