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"      The reports that lunatic North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un had his uncle/mentor/second in command Jang Song Thaek devoured by dogs in a fit of bi-polar paranoid psychosis are wholly believable, which is why they&amp;#039;re running rife on the Internet today. They are also, most likely, completely false. The Washington Post reports that the only real source of the story is a sketchy state-friendly Chinese newspaper, Wen Wei Po, who are so far down the journalistic integrity scale they rate 19 out of 21 for credibility in a country that brow beats its populace into believing things like choking on smog is good for them. There was another warning sign: it seemed really familiar. Do you remember a YouTube clip from a few years ago of dogs absolutely savaging a pile of food in some fenced-in compound? A quick web search for &amp;quot;dogs getting fed&amp;quot; revealed it. Indeed, if you were wondering how this alleged execution could have gone down, this video would be the most vivid way to find out. But here&amp;#039;s the most striking part: this YouTube clip and the Chinese report feature the exact same amount of dogs: 120.  The YouTube clip is over five-years-old and has more than a million views, making it far from far-fetched that someone looking to tell a good story about Thaek, who Kim Jong Un notably condemned as &amp;quot;worse than a dog,&amp;quot; would have found it quickly. It is also old enough for that conjurer to hope that it was long forgotten.   Case closed? Not quite. But there are far more reasons to dismiss the Chinese report out of hand than to believe it. And the YouTube clip itself leaves off some great details. The feeding, for instance, takes place in a French chateau ruled by a viscount for hundreds of years. They feed the dogs -- which are half English foxhound and half French Poitou, in case you were wondering -- every day, a &amp;quot;fun spectacle&amp;quot; that rates as a must-see by Rick Steve&amp;#039;s Europe. Alas, there are only 70 dogs involved, the guide says. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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