Pyongyang denies rumors Kim had plastic surgery
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January 25, 2013, Friday
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NORTH Korea has finally responded to persistent rumors that leader Kim Jong Un had plastic surgery to look like his revered grandfather, issuing an angry denial criticizing "sordid" media reports.
Speculation that Kim's resemblance to the country's founding leader Kim Il Sung is not 100 percent natural has been around for some time, though with little or no supporting evidence.
The rumors have been partly fed by the fact Kim Jong Un has sought to evoke memories of his grandfather in numerous ways, through his dress, haircut, gestures and public appearances.
And there is a clear physical resemblance. But Pyongyang's patience with reports of plastic surgery appears to have run out.
"The false report... released by enemies is a hideous criminal act which the party, state, army and people can never tolerate," the official Korean Central News Agency said on Wednesday.
Insisting the idea of Kim, who is in his late 20s, undergoing plastic surgery was "unimaginable," KCNA rejected what it described as "sordid hackwork by rubbish media."
Speculation that Kim's resemblance to the country's founding leader Kim Il Sung is not 100 percent natural has been around for some time, though with little or no supporting evidence.
The rumors have been partly fed by the fact Kim Jong Un has sought to evoke memories of his grandfather in numerous ways, through his dress, haircut, gestures and public appearances.
And there is a clear physical resemblance. But Pyongyang's patience with reports of plastic surgery appears to have run out.
"The false report... released by enemies is a hideous criminal act which the party, state, army and people can never tolerate," the official Korean Central News Agency said on Wednesday.
Insisting the idea of Kim, who is in his late 20s, undergoing plastic surgery was "unimaginable," KCNA rejected what it described as "sordid hackwork by rubbish media."
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