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Wednesday, August 06, 2003

When Life Overtakes The Onion...North Korean leader has passion for hoops

By JAE-SUK YOO
The Associated Press
8/6/2003, 2:39 p.m. CT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has another passion apart from running the isolationist nation: basketball.

In 2000, then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visited North Korea and gave Kim a ball signed by Michael Jordan.

"We should make our youths and workers play a lot of basketball," North Korean media quoted Kim Jong Il as saying that year.

Kim will soon have a new 12,300-seat basketball court in his capital. South Korea's Hyundai conglomerate has finished a $57 million gymnasium in Pyongyang that includes a state-of-the-art court with large TV screens and air conditioning. Construction proceeded despite tension this year over North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons. [...]

Once again, good to see that SOMEONE has their priorities right...

posted by Terry at 3:01:00 PM

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