RE: Kim Jong Un in Pictures
August 15, 2015 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2015 at 11:01 am by Razzle.)
(August 15, 2015 at 10:50 am)Napoléon Wrote:(August 15, 2015 at 9:40 am)Razzle Wrote: I think the attention is less due to his personal eccentricities and more the fact that a) they're a nuclear threat, unlike most malign dictatorships, and b) North Korea is a fascinating, unique social experiment.
I think you're just trying to find an excuse to disagree with me. I pretty much said exactly that it's because of b), and that he is an eccentric person stems entirely from that. So does in many ways the fact that NK is a 'nuclear threat'.
When I talked specifically about his eccentric ways, or what is more to the point, NK's eccentric ways, I'm more just talking about how our own media likes to report on the guy. Which is pretty self-evident.
I see his eccentricity and the unique social situation taking place in North Korea as quite different things. The former would be a shallow reason for them to get disproportionate media attention, but the latter is not, in my opinion. Most brutal dictators are very eccentric and comedians love it when they're in the news. But if you were trying to refer more broadly to that social situation than to just his own quirks, we don't disagree.
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