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Fan club for NK leader`s grandson opened on Facebook

Posted October. 10, 2011 03:24,   

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A fan club for North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s eldest grandson Kim Han Sol has been opened on the social networking service Facebook.

The person who opened the Facebook page did not disclose his or her nationality and name. Considering most messages were posted in either Korean or English and the year of birth was recorded as 1995, the person is assumed to be a Korean teenage girl.

On the introduction page, she said, “This fan page was made to support Kim Han Sol,” “Hurrah, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!”

She also said, “Oppa! I’m a fan of yours. You are handsome.”

Though the Facebook page was not opened by Kim Han Sol, it is attracting many netizens from both South Korea and abroad.

Jeong Cheon-jong, the former head of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of South Korea, left a message on the page reading, “A new generation like you is the hope of North Koreans.”

He told The Dong-A Ilbo over the phone, “I meant that the children of high-ranking officials in North Korea, who are relatively open-minded since they studied abroad, can infuse new hope into the North.”



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