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Propagandists tell North Koreans that supreme leader's son is a successor in the making

Propagandists tell North Koreans that supreme leader's son is a successor in the making

Youth is not considered an asset in the nation, where mandatory lectures have billed Kim Jong Eun, Kim Jong Il's twentysomething son, as a political breath of air. In a region where Confucian thinking about seniority still holds sway, where political life generally begins at 50, it isn’t easy to sell the public on a twentysomething who has never held a real job.

 

Chow as Confucious

I had no idea that this film even existed but it does and so Chow Yun Fat will be playing influential Chinese philosopher Confucious on film. Quick cliff notes on the dude are that he lived between 551 BC - 479 BC and he advocated personal and governmental morality and justice. And suddenly I am no longer enjoying my work. What a downer. BELOW are some of the first pics from the movie.
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