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How Old is Kim Jong Un?

The Atlantic's Brian Fung has the details:

At a news conference in Tokyo, Fujimoto let slip the North Korean leader's birthday -- a date that has, until now, lived in obscurity: January 8, 1983. That makes Kim 29 years old, and just a month shy of 30. The next-youngest serving world leader is Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan. He's 32.

But where is his birth certificate?

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