North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has climbed the country's highest mountain, state-run media has reported.
Photos were released of the smiling and windswept 32-year-old standing on snow-covered ground at the top of Mount Paektu, with the sun rising behind him.
One image shows dozens of troops cheering deliriously as the leader greets them at the peak.
"Climbing Mount Paektu provides precious mental pabulum more powerful than any kind of nuclear weapon," the Rodong newspaper quoted Mr Kim as saying.
State-run news service KCNA reported the young ruler of the impoverished but nuclear-armed North scaled the mountain on Saturday morning along with hundreds of fighter pilots, and top army and party officials.
The story is the latest run by state media on the feats of the Kim dynasty, which has ruled for more than six decades with an iron fist and pervasive personality cult.
Just last week the regime insisted Mr Kim could drive by the time he was three years old.
Among the claims made about his late father, Kim Jong-Il, was the suggestion he had scored an incredible 11 holes-in-one the first time he ever played golf.
The 2,750-metre peak of the volcanic mountain, which is on the border with China, is considered a sacred place in Korean folklore and is key to propaganda glorifying the Kim family.
Pyongyang has always insisted Kim Jong-Il was born on the mountain - although many historians say he was born in Russia - and praised the family for their "Mount Paektu bloodline".
Mr Kim, like his predecessors, has made frequent "field guidance trips" to industrial plants, army bases, and sacred sites across the country in what analysts say is an attempt at forging an image as an energetic man of the people.
What is he missing?
What is he missing?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: What is he missing?
Appropriate foot gear - really he doesn't have on any appropriate outerwear. But I think the answer you're really looking for is this:
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: What is he missing?
Well, at least we know he didn't pollute the top of the mountain with his poop - because Supreme Leader doesn't poop, he's a god! 
eta: It kinda freaks me out that in this day and age somebody can still have such mind control over so many people.
* Hard to believe anyone would think that gouty pig ever climbed that mountain on his own!

eta: It kinda freaks me out that in this day and age somebody can still have such mind control over so many people.

* Hard to believe anyone would think that gouty pig ever climbed that mountain on his own!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Re: What is he missing?
or
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: What is he missing?
"What is he missing?"
A baby strapped to his back obviously.
A baby strapped to his back obviously.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: What is he missing?
At last,
Pick any prize from the top two shelves!

“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: What is he missing?
He had a baby on his back, but he got hungry halfway up the climb and ate him....



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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan