{"id":1205,"date":"2016-01-08T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/is-kim-jong-un-the-worlds-undercover-style-icon\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:14:23","slug":"is-kim-jong-un-the-worlds-undercover-style-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/is-kim-jong-un-the-worlds-undercover-style-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Kim Jong-un the world&#039;s undercover style icon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kimjong\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA4L2NkL0tpbUpvbmcuY2MwYWIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/5189c3a1\/658\/KimJong.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Is+Kim+Jong-un+the+world%27s+undercover+style+icon%3F&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F08%2Fkim-jong-un-style-icon%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F08%2Fkim-jong-un-style-icon%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In spite of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/06\/north-korea-hydrogen-bomb-strength-power\/\">North Korea&#8217;s recent nuke test<\/a>, the world has not forgotten that it&#8217;s Kim Jong-un&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>However, as with much of North Korea, the exact date of Kim&#8217;s birthday is shrouded in mystery and has never been officially confirmed. It&#8217;s said to fall on Jan. 8, thanks to Dennis Rodman&#8217;s &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; performance for the North Korean leader at a basketball match in Pyongyang in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But celebrations for Kim&#8217;s birthday <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/08\/kim-jong-un-birthday\/\">have been relatively low-key<\/a> compared to his late father&#8217;s and grandfather&#8217;s. It could be that Kim is trying to project an image of a humble leader or that he doesn&#8217;t want his age to cast him in an inexperienced light. Whatever the reason, there&#8217;s no denying that, in the four years since he became North Korea&#8217;s leader, his physical appearances have garnered nearly as much press as the country&#8217;s state affairs. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/08\/kim-jong-un-style-icon\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/trends\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Trends<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/north-korea\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">North Korea<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/kim-jong-un\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kim Jong Un<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/fashion\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Fashion<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/OS2OqvzPQG0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of North Korea&#8217;s recent nuke test, the world has not forgotten that it&#8217;s Kim Jong-un&#8217;s birthday. However, as with much of North Korea, the exact date of Kim&#8217;s birthday is shrouded in mystery and has never been officially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/is-kim-jong-un-the-worlds-undercover-style-icon\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[723,776,775,799,735],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-fashion","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-trends","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}