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The lookalikes of
the controversial leaders turned heads and prompted many giggles
as they paraded down a busy shopping district to promote a Lunar
New Year song on Wednesday.
"Die, America, die," shouted the Kim lookalike, a Hong
Kong-based Australian musician who gave only his first name,
Howard, as he swaggered in the young leader's trademark black
uniform.
His counterpart playing Trump, a 66-year-old American musician
who goes by the name of Dennis Alan, pouted and took the insults
in stride.
Alan needed three times as much time as Howard to prepare for
his appearance, taking 1-1/2 hours to spread layer after layer
of orange foundation on his face and getting a hair stylist to
delicately affix his tailor-made wig.
Tongue-in-cheek, the Kim impersonator praised the newly
inaugurated leader of the free world, saying the two nations
could finally be friends as both are now led by "dictators".
"I think he's a great leader and he's much like me, a dictator,"
said Howard. "And I think with that in mind he's going to turn
the United States into North Korea 2.0. So we're going to be
great friends."
On New Year's Day, the North Korean leader said his country was
close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile,
which suggested the United States could be in range.
"It won't happen," Trump riposted on social network Twitter at
the time.
But on Wednesday, the two leaders' lookalikes had only one
decree for the people of Hong Kong – no selfies allowed.
(Reporting by Pak Yiu; Writing by Venus Wu; Editing by Clarence
Fernandez)
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