North Korea dictator Kim Jung Un, noted in ‘Thumbs’ today for his short back and sides haircut, is indeed a leader – there is a trail of bodies of victims that follow the Leader. On the subject of North Korea, one not often raised in Topical, a favourite story is the state run Korean Central Newsagency’s report in 2012 that the country’s Academy of Social Sciences had ‘reconfirmed that the lair of the unicorn ridden by King Tongmyong, who ruled the area between 37 and 19 B.C. had been found’. “A rectangular rock carved with words ‘Unicorn Lair’ stands in front of the lair.” We can choose to believe in unicorns, and also in another North Korean newsagency report that a new star appeared in space when Kim Jung-Un’s father, Kim Jung Il was born, underneath a double rainbow. He learned to walk at three weeks old and played a round of golf which included 11 holes in one. To be fair, a North Korea scholar later said the use of the word ‘unicorn’was a ‘mistranslation.
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