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.

[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.

[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.

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.

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.

Re:Who smuggled that in?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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: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?