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A Kim Jong Un impersonator walked through North Korea's Olympic cheer squad - and their faces say it all

A Kim Jong Un impersonator walked through North Korea's Olympic cheer squad - and their faces say it all

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A lookalike of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waves in the stands.

A man dressed to impersonate North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un walked through the crowd of Pyongyang's hand-picked cheer squad at the Olympics - and they looked unimpressed to say the least.

Though it's unclear if this is the $4, the man was rushed away from the squad, much as the earlier impersonators were shoed away on Friday. 

$4 looked less than thrilled to see a likeness of Kim before them. The squad is hand-picked for meeting stringent physical requirements, they are unpaid and train for months at a time, and have been imprisoned in the past for talking about the world they see outside of North Korea.

To get a feel for the pictures, check out $4 Anna Fifield, Tokyo bureau chief for The Washington Post, also tweeted an image of the incident: 

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