107.9 The River » Kim Jong Il http://theriver1079.com Casper's Real Rock Variety Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:27:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Chinese Newspaper Falls for The Onion Naming Kim Jung-Un 'Sexiest Man Alive' http://theriver1079.com/chinese-newspaper-onion-prank/ http://theriver1079.com/chinese-newspaper-onion-prank/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:41:34 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=168230 Some humor -- like, say, a guy slipping on a banana peel -- is universal. But when more sophisticated jokes cross into other cultures they can get lost in translation.

]]> http://theriver1079.com/chinese-newspaper-onion-prank/feed/ 0 The People's Daily 5 Hilarious Examples of Kim Jong Il as a Pop Culture Icon [VIDEO] http://theriver1079.com/kim-jong-il-in-pop-culture/ http://theriver1079.com/kim-jong-il-in-pop-culture/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:00:14 +0000 Don Deane http://thefw.com/?p=72343 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may be dead from a heart attack at 69-years-old, but his certifiable status as a pop culture punchline lives on.

The notoriously brutal dictator has often been the butt of jokes in movies and TV shows, including ‘Team America,’ ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘The Simpsons,’ just to name a few. We’ve gathered five of the funniest examples of Kim’s bizarre status as a pop culture icon below.

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