Kim Jong Un schockiert Zuhörer durch Verwendung südkoreanischer Begriffe in seiner Rede

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1. “While Kim did not use slang or cutesy words that South Korean couples call each other, experts said that the South Korean terms he used suggest that he might be watching the banned South Korean movies and TV shows that his people get punished for.”

   “On the other hand, the use of South Korean vocabulary might have been a signal that Kim wants to accept South Korean help to rebuild after the storm, said Robert R. King, the former special envoy for North Korean human rights issues at the U.S. Department of State.”

   More inclined to believe the former explanation but here’s the most relevant bits anyway.

2. Can’t wait for his version of the Gangnam style

3. Guess he finally found out that kimchi tastes better with a hint of gangnam style.

4. You’ll never see that speechwriter again.

5. Y’all going to have to deal with it. Probably something like that.

6. He’s a dictator, of course the rules he imposes on others don’t apply to him!

7. He is watching them for research. 

8. They have recently opened their borders for tourists again. A shift in thinking perhaps?

9. Nothing like chilling with a K-drama binge and a Budweiser after a long day of inspecting nuclear missiles.

10. His people dying is on him, if south koreans go over there expect a mass kidnap

11. This after the south korea north Korea picture at the Olympics? What’s going on here? There’s something fucky in the air, I can smell it

12. Man, some people executed by him becuz watching SK media, while himself watch it…

13. Anyone have a Korean version showing a comparison of the NK terms vs SK terms he used?

14. Maybe he’s trying for a reunification after opening the border to tourists in December. Have to get the Korean birthrate back up to save the homeland.

15. I don’t know why this would surprise anyone in the slightest. By its very nature, the oppressive rules of dictatorships only exist for the oppressed to follow. The ruling class does whatever it wants. Think about this when you’re at the polls in November feeling tormented inside about whether Kamala is likeable enough for you to not vote for the obvious dictator in waiting.

16. Yeah… all the shit banned in North Korea is only banned for everyone below the upper echelon of its society. So Kim Jong Un regularly watches and listens to a bunch of South Korean/American media and eats probably a bunch of foreign foods all the time. If you are surprised by this consider the fact he invited and hosted Dennis Rodman in his country before, because he is a big NBA fan.

17. Obviously watches squid games. …. and did his own probably.

18. Well maybe his starting to change his views and finally wants peace with South Korea, I mean when he dies it’s his daughter/son who replaces him, so probably he doesn’t want anything bad for them or something

19. I wonder what’s going on with him – this isn’t some kind of accident or something, what does he want by seemingly opening up, you know? And is there something going on with him physically or medically to push him to think in different terms now?

    Very interesting things going on here I feel. A lot of people are just making jokes and all, that’s fine – but like what’s happening here?

20. He just wanted to check the reaction of the spectators and anyone recognizing the terms, gets executed.

21. Also, if his people don’t know these terms at all then he might just be using them as if he was the originator of these terms and become more popular.

22. Hypocrisy. One of the humanity’s many flaws.

23. Imagine if he used some South Korean version of skibidi. lol

24. It’s either the guy who prepared his speach and all his family probably gone already, or it was planned. I’d really like to believe it’s the later.

25. Well, he IS Korean

26. Great Comrade Kim Jong Un didn’t use South Korean terms, the South Korean dogs were so inspired by the Supreme Leader that they started using his words.

    /s

27. Remember that map showing the location of Steam accounts and there’s one Steam account in North Korea?

28. He is doing what Xi told him to do.

29. Unironically, if Kim truly wanted to have a legacy of being loved by everyone… If he really did this — and had the balls to turn his back on all the power in the world and show everyone you don’t have to live through fear and greed

    And just said, this legacy is awful and I’m going to fucking stop it now. I’m going to end this evil and try to make the world our friends.

    He would literally be probably the best person to live.

30. And in food news: You’ve had enough to eat today.

31. Well at least it’s not Switzerdüütsch?! 

32. Interesting train cab design to make a speech.

33. The South Korean terms: Food. Electricity.

34. No doubt in my mind he loves South Koreas fun culture. He loves the US and the west too, he just has to pretend so his red daddies don’t get mad.

35. Equilibrium plot in real life.

36. Whoa great leader is a K POP fan! Just imagining him doing KPOP dance moves! Gangnam style!

37. Everything Kim says is the truth and standard.
    How can it possibly shock the people?

38. > But the laws apparently do not apply to Kim Jong Un. Earlier this month, while speaking to victims of the recent Yalu River flood, he called them his fellow “citizens” instead of “comrades,” as communist parlance would dictate, a resident of the northwestern province of North Pyongan told RFA Korean on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

    > He also referred to older flood victims as “elders” rather than “seniors” or “respected grandparents,” and abbreviated “television” to the more American-sounding “TV” as is common in the South, rather than “terebi,” which is more common in the North.

    > He also told the victims that they were “navigating rough terrain” rather than the more Northern expression of being in a “difficult and tiring situation.”

    If anyone else wanted to know exactly what these terms were. basically using loanwords instead of ‘pyongyang’ terms, whatever that might be.