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## Video: Vietnam Deports a Kim Jong Un Lookalike Before This Week's Kim-Trump Summit

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_Published 2019-02-25. A Kim Jong Un impersonator, who is in Vietnam in time for the Trump-Kim summit that will take place later this week, has been escorted by authorities to the airport to be deported._


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## Transcript

I feel a little bit you know, annoyed but what is to be expected of a one party state with no sense of humor. The Visa that I bought from my travel agency was invalid. They grabbed the person, the person who issued the Visa letter and us sign a piece of paper saying that it was invalid which is completely BS But the real reason was basically born with a face looking like Kim Jong that's the real crime. Rest [ UNKNOWN ] was New York. New York Because I think Americans will deport me. No. Yeah, you have to say that I have to so [ UNKNOWN ] So hopefully may be the next one [ UNKNOWN ] democratic country may be [ UNKNOWN ] that a good one.

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