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catsudon

(868 posts) Wed Jan 5, 2022, 10:34 AM Jan 2022

graffiti appears calling Kim Jong-un a 'son of a b----'

https://news.yahoo.com/pyongyang-demands-handwriting-samples-residents-144242458.html

It’s a test. If you actually write the phrase out, they shoot you on the spot.
Also it is refreshing to see similar idioms in different languages. In Chinese, it would be "fed by dog mother"

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The wealthy NK elite are now suffering. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #1

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1. The wealthy NK elite are now suffering.

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Ki Jong-un is going to have to crack down or start paying them off.