Kim Jong-Un's 'warm care' for weightlifter

A North Korean weightlifter at the Asian Games has credited the "warm care" of the country's supreme leader for his recovery from injury.

North Korean weightlifter Kim Un-Guk says his country's supreme leader Kim Jong-Un inspirationally helped cure a troublesome injury before he smashed three world records at the Asian Games.

Kim, who won the men's 62kg class competition, followed the example of every North Korean athlete in attributing any success at the Games in Incheon in the rival South to the reclusive country's young leader.

On collecting a medal, the North Koreans say that they were thinking about Kim Jong-Un at the crucial moment of victory.

In weightlifter Kim's case it was medical help.

"I've had some trouble in the waist. But thanks to the warm care of the respected Marshall Kim Jong-Un, I didn't feel any trouble," Kim told a press conference.

"So the great, warm care and great love and respect of Marshall Kim Jong-Un gave me the opportunity to be the champion."

Om Yun-Chol, who broke his own world record to win the 56kg class, added: "Armed with strong spirit and ideology as our comrade Kim Jong-Un taught us, you can break a rock with an egg and set a world record. That's my secret."

The communist country's propaganda machine has lauded Kim, with the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper describing him as the "People's Sportsman of the DPRK (North Korea)".

"We don't want anything from anybody. All we want is to give pleasure and happiness to our people and especially to the respectable Marshall Kim Jong-Un," said Kim.

Then as a journalist rose, microphone in hand, to ask a question, the media conference was abruptly cut short and the North Koreans got up to leave.


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