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Seyun KIM, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-73640.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Sept. 18, 2015.
    
    Filed Sept. 23, 2015.
    Alexander ■ H. Lubarsky, Esquire, San Mateo, CA, for Petitioner.
    Kerry Ann Monaco, Trial, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: CHRISTEN and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges and LEMELLE, District Judge.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
    
      
       The Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle, District Judge for the U.S, District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Seyun Kim, a native and citizen of South Korea, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for withholding of removal. We deny the petition for review. “[FJorced conscription or punishment for evasion of military duty generally does not constitute persecution on account of a protected ground.” Movsisian v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1095, 1097 (9th Cir.2005). Kim has presented no “evidence that [he] would be singled out for severe disproportionate punishment for refusing to serve in the [South Korean] military.” Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1188 (9th Cir.2006); cf. id. at 1187 (citing cases involving examples of severe disproportionate punishment).

DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.