It wasn’t from the wind he licked it.
The late Kim Jong-il, God rest him, was some man for one man.
According to his biography, he wrote over 1,500 books in three years in university, he scripted six operas that were better than any in the history of music and in his first ever game of golf, he recorded 11 holes in one on his way to a round of 38 under par.
His son, Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea since the auld lad’s death in 2011, hasn’t quite racked up the same list of achievements, but he’s on the right road at least.
Yesterday, North Korean state-run media claimed that Jong-un scaled North Korea’s highest mountain, Mount Paektu, publishing pictures of the Supreme Leader on a snowy mountain top and looking quite chuffed with himself.
All pics via KCNA
Kim Jong-un was there to see pilots from the Korean People’s Army, but it must have been a poignant family moment for him too because it is the mountain on which his Dad was reportedly born.
Reports from North Korean media read: “With a broad smile on his face, the Supreme Commander said that the looks of Mt. Paektu is impressive and the sunrise over Mt. Paektu is a charming and beautiful sight rare to be seen, adding the new morning of Korea dawns from Mt. Paektu.”
Kim Jong-un’s feat is even more impressive when you consider that he was able to make his way to the top of the summit, 2,750 metres into the sky, wearing a fairly everyday get-up, including shoes that do not exactly look fit for a taxing climb up a mountain.
No bother to Kim though, sure he’d probably be up to the top of Croagh Patrick and back down again faster than you can say Pyongyang.
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