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Kim Jong-Un Found To Be Mac User

Posted by yaelk on from the who-would-have-thought dept.

jones_supa writes: He might hate the United States, but he sure digs those designed-in-California computers. You probably wouldn't take Kim Jong-un as a Mac user. Usually, in photos of him checking out military computers, we see the North Korean dictator in front of a PC with a Dell monitor. However, a handful of photos of the supreme leader at his own desk show him with Macs, leading to the assumption that while the military may use PCs, his personal preference is Mac. Reuters correspondent James Pearson, who covers both Koreas, tweeted out a fresh image of little Kim using a MacBook Pro inside an aircraft. There are other images, including a 2013 image of Kim Jong-un at his desk with an iMac. That same year, the South Korean newspaper Chosun published a photo from North Korean Central News Agency, which features an Apple iMac. This might also explain why the country's home-grown Linux distribution Red Star imitates OS X.

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  1. Interesting. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had no idea he was gay.

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    1. Re:Interesting. by justcauseisjustthat · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you seen his hair?

    2. Re:Interesting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or how much he loves Katy Perry?

    3. Re: Interesting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wait, HE was the evil one?

    4. Re: Interesting. by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wait a minute... so if Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump are twins, you assume Kim is the evil one for some reason?

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  2. Think different by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seems he and his dad and granddad implemented that slogan a bit too literally.

  3. Finally! by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdotters now concur on nuking North Korea.

  4. Kim Jong-Un is an App Apper! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Modern app appers like Kim Jong-Un know that ONLY apps can app apps, which is why he uses the App Apping App to app apps on his App App!

    Apps!

  5. Photoshop, anybody by lecithin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Macs are still the best platform for manipulating photos and videos, right?

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  6. systemd by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be fair, before he got a Mac, Kim had a Linux machine. He gave up when he couldn't get the audio drivers to work. I heard on the news that he had a bunch of his kernels executed.

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  7. Re:Who smuggled that in? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Pyongyang Apple store has 1 big customer. He certainly thinks different.

  8. Re:Not at all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Demonstrably false: Find one evil mac user.

    I'll go there: Hitler was a mac user. Do I have to edit Wikipedia to prove it?