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The people at reddit often find interesting things. Check this close up out of the Kim Jong Il funeral. A man, about twice as tall as the other men. Jokes about the malnourished people’s heights in North Korea aside, there is a freak at the funeral. It must be the 7’9″ North Korean basketball player, Ri Myung Hun.
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Just a car with a giant portrait on top. (Atlantic – Photo from Kim Jong Il Funeral)
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There’s been a lot written and it’s all common knowledge by now. His look is of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the real creator of the North Korean “kingdom”. The most interesting part. 6 plastic surgeries? We’ll never truly know about this, and maybe he just gained weight. From ABC: “A North Korean defector, Kim Hae-Sook, 50, testified to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London earlier this year that she heard from a high-level official in North Korea that Kim Jung Un underwent six plastic surgeries to look like his grandfather with chubby cheeks and a double chin. Fujimoto had also told Japanese reporters that he did not recognize Kim at first when North Korea published the first picture in 2010, as he looked so different from his teenage years.” (ABC – Kim Jung Un)
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From a CNN post, they link to this tumblr page. It’s just photos of Kim Jong Il looking at things. Some of us (this tumblr user) will miss these pics. They are a bit odd, but then again, what else is a person going to do? Not look at things? (Tumblr – Kimjongillookingatthings)
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There’s no RIP for him.
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