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Kim Jong-Il Uses 'Invisible' Phone to Advise North Korea's Soccer Coach

by Amar Toor on June 17, 2010 at 03:55 PM

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Earlier this week, Brazil's national soccer team beat North Korea at the World Cup. The result wasn't shocking, but the fact that North Korea actually has a soccer team certainly took us by surprise. The team may be the lowest ranked squad in the tournament, and the country may be making its first World Cup appearance in 44 years, but the underdog of this year's Cup apparently has a secret, non-nuclear weapon up its sleeve: an invisible phone.

As ESPN reports, Kim Jong-Su, general secretary of the North Korean Football Association, recently claimed that Kim Jong-Il routinely gives him "in-depth guidance" on how to go about developing the game within his country's hermetic borders -- because soccer, as everyone knows, is a great way to keep young hoodlums off the rice paddies. But Jong-Il's influence apparently extends far beyond his country's next generation of emaciated Ronaldos. According to coach Kim Jong-Hun, Dear Leader even uses an invisible phone to deliver morsels of supreme tactical wisdom during games. Jong-Hun went on to say that the North Korean madman developed the technology himself, presumably with tweezers and fairy dust.

This isn't the first ridiculous myth we've heard about North Korea's maniacal leader, and it may not even be the most far-fetched. Thing is, there's no way to prove that this phone doesn't exist. Because it's invisible -- just like those invisible goals North Korea scored in their invisible win over Brazil. [From: ESPN, via: Time]

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