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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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    5. Re:Interesting. by rednip · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

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    6. Re:Interesting. by cavreader · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

    7. Re:Interesting. by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

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    8. Re:Interesting. by KGIII · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

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  2. Who smuggled that in? by justcauseisjustthat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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

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

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

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

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

    Slashdotters now concur on nuking North Korea.

  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. Hitler was driving Mercedes by aralin · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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  8. Re:so THAT'S why NK's Sat is out of control by unixisc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

  9. Seems reasonable by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

  10. 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?