Diversity win! This up and coming dictator is a young woman!
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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His sister is gonna coup that shit up.
As she's then effectively getting in line, would that be a coup queue? Seems to track for NoKo. 🤪
Kinda makes me wish one of them thought screaming was singing, then we could dub them "NoKo Oh-No".
FWIW, the other thread I was fiddling with mentally was re: the term "chuffed" and its implied verb "to chuff" to create this headline: "Coup queue for NoKo chuff" 🤣
I hope she doesn’t get a cold, otherwise that would be a ‘coup queue cachoo’.
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Or she is going to get executed
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it took a “range of circumstances” into account including her increasingly prominent public presence at official events" in making this assessment.
Coup what shit? This speculation seven layers deep.
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Well there goes the legacy of terrible haircuts. Three generations of shite hair down the drain!
Don't underestimate her haircut styling skills!
Look at North Korea, breaking down those gender boundaries in the male-dominated dictatorship world.
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That photo makes me feel old - I remember when Kim Jong Un looked young and stupid, now he looks old and stupid
Exactly! When did he age that much? It's crazy.
I suspect the last decade of dealing with Trump and Xi hasn't been the easiest time of his life. Just look at before and after pics of normal US presidents. That job ages them a decade in 4 years
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He looks like shit for being in his early 40s. I wonder if there is something going on with his health and that’s why he is appointing a 13 year old heir. The article doesn’t elaborate on that but it says he “appears young and healthy.” He looks like he is about to pop. I don’t think I’d describe him as young or healthy looking.
Kim isn’t in the best of shape but he isn’t at Donald Trump levels of poor health.
As for naming his daughter the heir to the throne it could be she is the only legitimate child he has.
In terms of male relatives the only one of the Kim family that is not as old or older than him (and not dead) is Kim Han Sol, and if anyone is paying attention it’s obvious why he isn’t getting the throne.
He’s almost 40 years younger than Trump, so I don’t think it’s comparable. I’m the same age as Kim and I know no one who is in as bad as shape as him (maybe one or two co-workers who are morbidly obese). There is nothing healthy about being 5’3” and 275 lbs.
Yes but it’s not “dude is going to croak any day now.”
Even more so as his status and position gives him access to the best medical care
I don’t know. Heart attacks are a real thing. Your 40s get weird with health stuff. I agree that I don’t think he is going to croak any day now, but it does seem like they are preparing for him to be gone. His father only lived to 60.
I don’t dispute in having a successor prepared for when the time comes. It’s just that for a monarchy it’s good policy to have an heir ready in the wings, otherwise you get a lovely power struggle.
In this case it would be between factions of the ruling elite that are die hard cultists and factions that didn’t drink the kool-aid and just want to stay in power.
Normally a population opposition would also be in the mix but unlike Venezuela and Iran NK seems to have taken care of that
I remember just about every Kim not being very healthy. The jokes wrote themselves with Kim Jong-il.
I read a news article about that mentioned he was thrusted into power in his 20s so maybe he wanted to start introducing her to the system early.
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Finally, the people's girlboss leader!
So the US can't even let women control their own bodies but North Korea can get a woman to lead the country? The fuck kind of timeline are we even on? Why haven't the epstein files gotten the idiot impeached yet?
Why haven’t the epstein files gotten the idiot impeached yet?
'Cos most of the people who would impeach him are in said files?
I was hoping the era of women leaders was going to be a little less fascist. Does anyone have a link to the article not behind a paywall?
What Thatcher taught us was that it's acceptable for women to be in charge as long as they're overtly callous.
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We are about to see some of the most effective utiliseations of girl power in history
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I thought Mr. Nobutthole was invincible and would never die.
Well, when the rest of the world is lead by pedophiles, you play the card that will make taking them over easy.
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