What does Kim Jong Un want for his birthday? A pile of dung, apparently.
What do you get a young totalitarian dictator for his birthday? Well, not a frat boy comedy that revolves around an assassination plot. Kim Jong Un already has one of those with Sony Pictures’ 'The Interview'.
And not a serenade from a pierced basketball star. North Korea’s “Great Successor” got that last year when Dennis Rodman sang happy birthday to him on a basketball court in Pyongyang, in a scene that could easily have come out of the aforementioned film.
So what do you get the tyrant who has everything? Well, how about a huge pile of manure? That, apparently, is what Kim wants for his birthday on Thursday, which is turning out to be a more low-key affair than usual.
It’s not clear whether Kim, the third generation leader of the world’s only communist dynasty, was born in 1982 or 1983, but it is known that he was born on Jan. 8 in one of those years.
And leaders’ birthdays are a big deal in North Korea. “Eternal President” Kim Il Sung’s birthday on April 15 and Kim Jong Il’s birthday on Feb. 16 are national holidays and are celebrated with great fanfare. For the 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s birthday in 2012, entire buildings were built in Pyongyang.
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