Ripples #95

Kim Jong Un Supervises Swimming
Drill for North Korean Naval Officers

Although Kim Jong Un, the pudgy, 31-year-old strongman of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has never been known as a particularly inspiring specimen of male physical fitness, he recently supervised an arduous swimming drill by North Korean naval officers.

According to official government Web site kfausa.org, “Marshal” Kim was satisfied with what he saw. The site reported:

Kim Jong Un met the commanding officers prior to the start of the drill and told them that the assessment of their swimming ability was of weighty importance in rounding off the combat readiness of the navy and remarkably bolstering up [sic] the combat capabilities by making the training more intense just as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did in Mt. Paektu.

The drill involved a 10-kilometer swim — 5 kilometers out to sea and 5 kilometers back. Regarding successful execution… uh… completion of the drill, Kim said that “modern warfare requires the commanding officers to be prepared not only politically and ideologically and in military technique but physically.”

Given that “Great Successor” Kim is Supreme Commander of the North Korean armed forces, Ripples foresees many pool laps in his future. Or maybe not.

To see what another official-seeming Web site has to say baout the matter, click here.

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