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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Korea Thread: Fumbling to take a bite of kimchi
 
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fade5
May 31, 2012

by exmarx

Mightypeon posted:

USSR got offended because Yong-Il seriously tried to popularize North korean Yuche Ideology in the Soviet Union. Parts of the KGB actually liked that, because North Koreas Propaganda efforts made the USSRs beurocracy/propaganda appear to be very rational, streamlined, transparent and efficient by comparison, but the Party higher ups were to offended by the thought of some random Kim trying to dare and teach them communism that they got rather mad.
Mostly unrelated to the present situation in North Korea, but I'm legitimately curious, is it standard certain places (I think you're from Russia?) to transliterate Korean to English with a "Y" instead of a "J"? I've only ever seen the word spelled as "Juche", but I can see how most of the translations would be pronounced fairly similarly.

Also I found out that not only does a "Kim Yong-Il" exist, the guy was apparently the Premier of North Korea from April 2007 to June 2010. I presume you weren't talking about that guy though:v:

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Korea Thread: Fumbling to take a bite of kimchi