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Pudgy Tours Elite Military Units
2012-02-08
New North Korean leader Suet Face Kim Jong-un visited seven military units over the past month, most of them of elite forces. A South Korean security official said Seoul is trying to find out why Kim is focusing on these elite units that have great strategic and symbolic significance.
Because if Pudgy doesn't have them on his side he'll be overthrown in a Pyongyang minute...
The state-run media reported Kim on Jan. 31 visited the 1,017th Air Force Unit, one of two MIG-29 fighter units in the North. The MIG-29 is the newest of the North's 800 fighter jets and was donated by the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
So it's not really 'new'...
During his visit, Kim climbed into the cockpit of a MIG-29 standing on the tarmac and had his photo taken with the pilots.
Sorta like Dukakis in a tank, but no one dared to laugh...
Earlier, on Jan. 18, Kim visited the 169th Army Unit, an infiltration unit specializing in sending commandoes to South Korea.

The 105th Seoul Ryu Kyong-su Guards Division, which he visited on New Year's Day, is remembered as the unit that entered Seoul three days after the Korean War broke out in 1950 and hoisted the North Korean flag at the top of the main government building in Seoul. While still the heir, Kim accompanied his father Kim Jong-il on another visit to the unit in January 2010, where he drove a tank by himself.

Shin Beom-chul of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses said, "It seems Kim Jong-un is visiting elite units to demonstrate most effectively that his power base lies in the military."

"All this seems to be his warning to the South not to get carried away just because he is a green wet behind the ears snot nosed rookie leader," a researcher at another government-funded think tank said.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  where he drove a tank by himself.

His Dukakis moment right there....

They have to use the ejection button to get him out?

Crane - ejection seats do have weight limits.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-02-08 18:30  

#4  Pudgy in the cockpit? Right. They have to use the ejection button to get him out?
Posted by: manversgwtw   2012-02-08 17:50  

#3  Did he make rat tat tat noises and jet noises when he was sitting in the MIG-29?

When is someone going to have the cajones to stick a fork in NORK and put an end to this enormous human catastrophe?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2012-02-08 15:46  

#2  And heat in their barracks. And oh, that fantastic dessert table.
Posted by: Steven   2012-02-08 14:50  

#1  A South Korean security official said Seoul is trying to find out why Kim is focusing on these elite units that have great strategic and symbolic significance.


They have better food.
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-02-08 09:34  

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