Kim Jong-nam — gangsta eldest son of Kim Jong-il — talks in English with a Japanese reporter about reports that he’s defected and about news that his kid brother has been named successor to the kingdom.
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His accent sounds as much Russian as Korean. I wonder how much time he spent in the USSR growing up.
And his English is better than most public school Korean English teachers I’ve met.
It sounded kind of German to me. He looks like the type of guy who would rather be at Tokyo Disney Land than standing on the mausoleum on May Day saluting troops marching by in formation – which is why he’s not the successor I suppose. Must be strange to be living in two very different worlds.
Hat tip to me.
I also was struck by how little his English sounded like a typical Korean ajussi English. Perhaps Russian and/or Swiss influences.
I would certainly love to have a drink with him. Anyone got his contact details in Macau?
Gotta keep an eye out for him next time I’m in Macau. Quite a few Koreans there anyhow-about 20% of the players at the poker tables there are Korean. (although I don’t recall seeing any Korean restaurants).
hamel, why are we tipping our hats to you? have you talked of this before?
by swiss do you mean french? i hear something of that in the mix, but nothing of german or italian. (don’t know what romansh sounds like, so won’t comment.) by russian do you mean you have a problem with the reverb on your speakers?
I think he was tipping his hat a little to your typical ajoshi when ending his sentence with “I think”. very nice. sounds like the officious bastard I had to deal with recently at the gas board. wouldn’t speak korean and started every sentence with “as you know.” No, I bleeding well didn’t know, which was why I was making an enquiry!
But I digress…
The fact the travels so much to Macau makes me wonder if North Korea has a stake in a casino in Macau, or are they just using them to launder their forged dollar bills.
…Oh, and ”admits”’…I would have used ”claims” instead. Just because he speaks good English doesn’t make him any less connected to the North Korean government, and therefore untrustworthy.
Speaking of North Koreans and Macau, the family of Thai citizen Anocha Panjoy, kidnapped in Macau and taken to North Korea, would very much like to have her back. Could you please help us all out, Mr. Kim Jong-nam? You seem a likeable fellow.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/19/regional/regional_30049546.php
Speaking of kidnapping, why doesn’t someone kidnap fat ass Jong-nam and offer Jong-il a deal…his kid for the two reporters?
this fuck is weapons dealing officially.
on the dark side, most certainly drug dealing.
he is to be prosecuted and put in a pen with the pigs, as soon as he makes the mistake of seeking asylum in the free world.
cut off his dick first and keep him alive.
alive at all costs, to witness the fall of the Kim dynasty of 1946-20xx.
Never again. Never forget.
we’ll torture him by playing
Viva La Vida
non stop in his cell-sty.
What a pointless interview.
Rumor has it he reads Marmot’s Hole.
Can you imagine if he did become successor and could just speak to Obama directly in confidence? I wonder what those conversations would be like?
I’d be delighted to learn that North Korea was earning money as a weapons dealer. It beats the dickens out of drug dealing or counterfeiting; sale of military hardware to governments is a legitimate business activity, and perhaps one of North Korea’s only credible manufactured products. I wouldn’t think they’d be much good at computer software, toothpaste, or designer clothing, but rifles? Probably not bad. If I were Angola or Zambia I’d give them a look.
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=112&aid=0002011311
hardly proof, but it is what it is.
what if it’s nuke tech/components on the black market?
@15:
The problem are the countries North Korea sells the weapons to (e.g. Myanmar)
I think the US has probably sold weapons to worse. Like the Taliban. Or Saddam Hussein. Or Saudi Arabia. Or, and I’ll admit this logic is strained, but here you go: how about providing weapons to a country, at war, which allowed said country to lower the military budget, develop their economy, and pass some of those profits onto . . . wait for it . . . North Korea.
This was the guy who first fell out of favor I believe when he made his plans to open up the country (once in charge) known to the ruling elite. Before this, he was a lock for being next in line. Making such radical intentions known was suicide.
hey wjk, why do you hate 김’s so much? All of them or just a certain clan? You rant against them enough… why not a refresher as to why?
I thought he fell out of favor with the ill-fated Tokyo Disney Land trip – getting caught with the fake Dominican passport in Japanese customs. Or maybe that makes him a rebel in the struggle against Japan, just like grandpa Il Sung.
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