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05 Feb 2013, 5:13 am

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North Korea's Kim Jong-un and the mystery smartphone

What smartphone does Kim Jong-un use? A new picture has triggered fevered speculation about which brand is favoured by the dictator of North Korea, a country that only introduced mobile phones in 2008.

The photo released by the North's state media showed Kim presiding over a meeting with top national security advisers last week - a meeting believed to have been focused on Pyongyang's threat to conduct an imminent nuclear test.

It also showed a black smartphone on the table next to Kim's arm - as well as a lit cigarette in his hand.

"It's believed that the smartphone belonged to Kim given that the device was placed right next to the documents he was looking at," a Seoul government official told news agency Agence France-Presse.

I'm not exactly sure it'd be an excellent selling point though - "look, our phone is used by the dictator ruling North Korea!"

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05 Feb 2013, 7:16 am

its probably an obscure chinese brand or bootleg in which case its main market base are unlikely to care.

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05 Feb 2013, 10:40 am

Tequila wrote:

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North Korea's Kim Jong-un and the mystery smartphone

What smartphone does Kim Jong-un use? A new picture has triggered fevered speculation about which brand is favoured by the dictator of North Korea, a country that only introduced mobile phones in 2008.

I'm not exactly sure it'd be an excellent selling point though - "look, our phone is used by the dictator ruling North Korea!"

So what. No one in N. Korea but the high leadership can even afford cell phones. Hell, most N. Koreans barely get enough to eat.

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05 Feb 2013, 2:08 pm

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05 Feb 2013, 4:17 pm

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So what. No one in N. Korea but the high leadership can even afford cell phones. Hell, most N. Koreans barely get enough to eat.

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Don't get your point. Most Africans barely get enough to eat, and they have capitalism.

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05 Feb 2013, 5:04 pm

thomas81 wrote:

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So what. No one in N. Korea but the high leadership can even afford cell phones. Hell, most N. Koreans barely get enough to eat.

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Don't get your point. Most Africans barely get enough to eat, and they have capitalism.

Things are different in N. Korea. You should look at what Christoper Hitchans had to say about N. Korea.

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05 Feb 2013, 5:27 pm

ruveyn wrote:

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ruveyn wrote:

So what. No one in N. Korea but the high leadership can even afford cell phones. Hell, most N. Koreans barely get enough to eat.

ruveyn

Don't get your point. Most Africans barely get enough to eat, and they have capitalism.

Things are different in N. Korea. You should look at what Christoper Hitchans had to say about N. Korea.

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theres an inherent tendency with conservatives and market anarchists to say that North Korea's humanitarian crisis are an indictment of their political system. Centralised economies fare better when there are more of them. Right up until the point that the Soviet Union hit hard times (Brezhnev era), the DPRK was wealthier than South Korea.

There is equally awful famines happening in market economies yet somehow because they also happen to be a cornucopia of coca cola and mcdonalds for the unnaffected classes there it is somehow not an indictment of those economic systems.

The nation of Liberia is modelled directly on the United States (even the design of their flag is borrowed) yet despite this it succeeds in being one of, if not the biggest s**thole on the planet.

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05 Feb 2013, 10:55 pm

Maybe he uses a Samsung!

Kinda like a washingtonian like me who is forced to root for the Ravens because the Redskins didnt make it to the superbowl.

North Korea doesnt make anything high-tech, but atleast he can still 'buy Korean' from South Korea.

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06 Feb 2013, 5:23 pm

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North Korea doesnt make anything high-tech, but atleast he can still 'buy Korean' from South Korea.

you say that, but they have a nuclear arms program and a more successful space program than most asian countries including their adversaries to the south.

The lack of information is a double edged sword. The truth is we don't know what is made in North Korea much more than what North Koreans know is made outside it.

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