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The DPRK is east asian, like Japan. Southeast asia is Indonesia, Thailand etc.

Also Kim is basically Korean "Smith."

Bullshit.

Smith is way less common of a family name in English than Kim is in Korean.

FWIW according to wikipedia there are 9.9 million Kims and 2.9 million Smiths. Kim is the most popular Korean surname and Smith is the most popular English surname.

I believe that I have yet to meet a Korean whose last name is something other than Kim, Lee, or Park.

[edit] I was wrong I know a Cheong as well.

Kim Lee and Park only make up half the population. You may just have falsely categorized Koreans with other last names.

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