14 DAY TRIAL // News about the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is scarce and generally not good. The short but mean-spirited dictator has failed to make any public appearances in the past month, and people were beginning to wonder if he was OK. Since news from that part of the world is heavily filtered, people were wondering if Kim hadn't actually died.
It turns out that he didn't die, but he did manage to break both his ankles. It wasn't a skiing accident that did in the portly Kim, but his addiction for cheese and high heels, if we're to believe the Daily Star. The British tabloid reports that the dictator's weight has ballooned to 20 stone, which is roughly 130 kilograms, mainly thanks to his addiction to Emmental cheese.
The Swiss cheese is heavy in fats and the dictator is said to have picked up the habit of eating it while he attended private schools in Switzerland. He was so obsessed with the cheese that he actually sent out a couple of his people to a famous cheese-making school in France to learn the process so that he could make it himself, but the institute politely refused.
Kim Jong-un is said to be recovering in the hospital after surgery on both his ankles
One of Korea's largest newspapers is claiming that the dictator is recovering from a double ankle surgery at the exclusive Bonghwa Clinic in Pyongyang. This seems to confirm some of the rumors and explains why, the last time he was seen in public, Kim was limping heavily.
When you connect his cheese addiction to his other favorite activity – that of wearing Cuban heels while in public in order to appear taller and thus more imposing to those around him – you understand now why Kim is recovering in the hospital.
While the dictator is getting fat, the country is struggling with famine and malnutrition
The Western media is, however, busy blasting the dictator for getting visibly fat in the past couple of months, while many of his citizens have been reported to suffer from malnutrition. North Korea is believed to battle with the biggest famine in its recent history, as well as struggling with widespread malnutrition, which explains why it still relies so heavily on food aids.
Some of his close advisers are said to have suggested that the dictator should lead a more simple life, closer to that of the people, in order to avoid such health problems in the future. Local sources have connected Kim's ravenous cheese-eating in later months with the increase in social and political pressure he has to overcome.