Kim Jong-Un Found To Be Mac User

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.

Comments

Interesting.

[grub]

I had no idea he was gay.

Re:Interesting.

[justcauseisjustthat]

Have you seen his hair?

Re:Interesting.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or how much he loves Katy Perry?

Re: Interesting.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, HE was the evil one?

Re: Interesting.

[93 Escort Wagon]

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

Re:Interesting.

[BarbaraHudson]

Someone can't take a joke. It's funny because it's about the "New and Improved Glorious Leader of the DPRK".

So here's another one to offend you:

Three women are standing in a row. The first on is 5' tall, the second one is 5'6, the third one is 6' tall.

Q. Which one's the transsexual?

A. The one with the turtleneck.

Does posting that joke make me a transphobic bigot?

Re:Interesting.

[rednip]

Yea, no way that could go wrong says the guy who clearly doesn't live in Seoul, South Korea with their family and all their assets within marching distance from over a million North Korean soldiers.

Re:Interesting.

[cavreader]

It's surprising that China has not been more forceful with NK. China's leadership are all closet capitalists and are very pragmatic. Every move NK makes only increases the size of the US military footprint in the region. Japan and SK are requesting the US to deploy missile defense batteries in the region. Missile defense systems that could very easily be used to degrade China's offensive and defensive missile forces. That is the last thing China wants to see.

Re:Interesting.

[Jeremi]

Conventional wisdom is that China props up the North Korean government because if it collapses, China will have 25 million starving refugees at their doorstep (not that they don't already, but for now at least they aren't China's problem).

What actions China considers the best ones to accomplish that goal, and whether they are correct about the efficacy of their approach, is way above my pay grade.

Re:Interesting.

[cavreader]

If the NK government collapses I think you might see a lot of Chinese citizens and other countries rushing into NK looking for fresh business opportunities. The deciding factor would be how the government collapsed and what is replacing it. Right now I think China is in a bind. I think they are afraid if they took a harder line and started issuing ultimatums NK would tell them to get bent and do so very publicly. China would end up looking like the US in dealing with Syria.

Re:Interesting.

[KGIII]

Get that hook out of your mouth. The bait wasn't even that good! ;-)

Actually, a couple of years ago someone shared a racist joke with me. It's at this point that I'll share that I'm part black (as is known) and that the person who shared it with me is also black. While it might make you chuckle, there's a serious bent to it.

Q: When does a black man become a nigger?
A: When he leaves the room.

Funny? Maybe. True? Quite probably. Sad? Kinda sorta.

Sometimes there's value in humor. It's all how we look at it. Also, the AC's just a troll. They got some bites so you can't say they're unsuccessful. However, baiting with SJW-bait? That's probably considered poaching and it's almost certainly out of season.

Not at all

[avandesande]

Not surprised at all

Re:Not at all

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:Not at all

[Bongo]

Going to the movies, I've come to realise the evil geniuses always have the best tech, and appreciate the finer things in life.

Meanwhile the good guys are the underdogs who have to build an effective defence out of some duct tape and a packet of stale potato chips.

Who smuggled that in?

[justcauseisjustthat]

I thought you couldn't ship Apple stuff (Mac, iPhone , etc) to North Korea, so they must have smuggled it in from South Korea or China.

Re:Who smuggled that in?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Who smuggled that in?

[Bert64]

Trade sanctions only hurt the average people, those with money and power can get everything they want via the black market.
Infact trade sanctions only help the rulers of north korea, as it becomes much easier for them to restrict the flow of information.

Re:Who smuggled that in?

[bentcd]

I thought you couldn't ship Apple stuff (Mac, iPhone , etc) to North Korea, so they must have smuggled it in from South Korea or China.

What do you mean "ship"? Kim Jong-Un built it himself, overnight, using nothing but a screwdriver and a piece of patriotic Korean timber.

Games

[Adriax]

Thank god. Can you imagine how quickly the nukes would fly if Un had a PC and could play actual games? 10 minutes online and WW3 would start with the phrase "I'll nuclear launch detected you!"

Think different

[NotInHere]

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

Finally!

[Applehu Akbar]

Slashdotters now concur on nuking North Korea.

so THAT'S why NK's Sat is out of control

[turkeydance]

software incompatibility.

Re:so THAT'S why NK's Sat is out of control

[unixisc]

The Macs that he is on - are they on OS X, or did they replace that w/ North Korea's Red Star Linux? We discussed that OS here on /. a while back. His generals may have PCs, but if all of them run Red Star Linux, as opposed to OS X or Windows, then it's all level. He just has the most expensive computer of them all

Photoshop, anybody

[lecithin]

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

systemd

[PopeRatzo]

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.

Hitler was driving Mercedes

[aralin]

Hitler was driving Mercedes. Rich dictator fucks like expensive stuff. News at 11.

Make sense

[danbob999]

He hates freedom and his a control freak.

Seems reasonable

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

The guy is absolute ruler and head of a cult of personality in one of the most insular walled, er, 'gardens' on earth; so why wouldn't he be a Mac user?

Re:All us Mac users . . .

[KGIII]

Err... Why? Who gives a shit who else uses your OS? It's not a lifestyle choice, it's a fucking operating system. There's a bunch of them. Pick which ever one you like best and run with it. Pick the one that gives you the ability to accomplish the tasks you wish to accomplish, with the least hassles, and with the fewest compromises that you need to make in order to do so safely, peacefully, and with the greatest amount of ease possible.

It doesn't matter if it's Windows, OS X, BSD, MINIX, Linux, or whatever else. It's an operating system. You are not your operating system. Your operating system is not you. Other people who use your OS are not you. You are not defined by the OS you us, the software you run, or the assets you have. Place stock in who you really are instead of needing affirmation from others with your choices.

That, that there is what freedom really is.