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Renaissance Dictator Acquires Another Skill

Mary Katharine Ham may be O'Reilly's go-to internet expert, but if she's not careful, she may have some competition half a world away.

(HT; Drudge)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an "Internet expert" during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday.

The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked that South Korean companies operating at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use the Internet, Yonhap news agency reported, without citing any source.

"I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired," Kim told Roh, according to Yonhap.

And you thought he was just the world's greatest golfer.

Of course it should come as no shock to learn of the man's internet expertise, being the ruler of such a wired country.  Check out that tastefully brilliant hotspot of Pyongyang, basking in the glow of the several LEDs that adorn North Korea's modem.  None of that flashy gaudiness of Seoul - or any of the countless tiny hamlets in South Korea that outshine Kim's capital city.  Classy, subtle, understated.  That's how the pros do technology.

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Update: The Hammer weighs in on the competition, deems him a jive turkey.

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Renaissance Dictator Acquires Another Skill

Mary Katharine Ham may be O'Reilly's go-to internet expert, but if she's not careful, she may have some competition half a world away.

(HT; Drudge)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an "Internet expert" during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday.

The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked that South Korean companies operating at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use the Internet, Yonhap news agency reported, without citing any source.

"I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired," Kim told Roh, according to Yonhap.

And you thought he was just the world's greatest golfer.

Of course it should come as no shock to learn of the man's internet expertise, being the ruler of such a wired country.  Check out that tastefully brilliant hotspot of Pyongyang, basking in the glow of the several LEDs that adorn North Korea's modem.  None of that flashy gaudiness of Seoul - or any of the countless tiny hamlets in South Korea that outshine Kim's capital city.  Classy, subtle, understated.  That's how the pros do technology.

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Update: The Hammer weighs in on the competition, deems him a jive turkey.