Kim Jong Un Steadily Gaining Weight, Drinking Excessively, Report Says

This is all we need. A rogue nation suffering from acute communist paranoia being led by a drunken glutton with no concept of self-control. And he is rapidly developing a strong nuclear weapon capability. Good grief!

By Elizabeth Shim, UPI


North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s health has not improved, and his dietary habits may be to blame, according to a South Korean press report. File Photo by Rodong Sinmun

SEOUL, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Kim Jong Un's fondness for Swiss cheese and French wine could be driving his weight gain since he fully assumed power in 2012 – and his siblings also struggle with alcohol-related issues and are quick to punish subordinates.

An account from the Kim family's former sushi chef Kenji Fujimoto, released in 2016 after the Japanese national visited with the North Korean leader in April, claims Kim hasn't stopped enjoying fine cuisine, South Korean television network KBS reported Friday.

According to Fujimoto, who has known the Kims since 1982, the North Korean leader drank an expensive Bordeaux wine during dinner. Kim also boasted that he had drunk "10 bottles of Bordeaux" a few days prior to the meal, where he appeared with six attractive North Korean women, Fujimoto had said.

A connoisseur of good food, Kim enjoys consuming Emmental, a medium-hard Swiss cheese that he became familiar with during his boarding school days in Switzerland, according to KBS.

In 2014, Kim reportedly dispatched officials to learn the cheese-making techniques at a French culinary school, after becoming angry with North Korean chefs for their inability to reproduce the same flavors he had tasted in Switzerland.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service stated at a recent parliamentary briefing on Wednesday that Kim's health has not improved since July, when the spy agency noted Kim weighed about 290 pounds, up from an estimated 200 pounds in 2012.

Keep sending him more wine and cheese - maybe he will explode!

The NIS also said in a recent assessment that Kim's older brother Kim Jong Chul engages in violent behavior when drunk.

Kim Jong Chul, who was seen at an Eric Clapton concert in 2015, destroyed bottles in his hotel room after excessive drinking, the spy agency said.

Kim Jong Chul would have succeeded his father, Kim Jong Il, but the former North Korean leader had criticized his oldest son for being "like a girl," according to Fujimoto.

Kim Yo Jong, the youngest among the siblings, has been out of the spotlight since June.

In charge of North Korea propaganda, she was responsible for inviting foreign journalists to the Seventh Party Congress, an event that did not produce cooperative journalism, according to KBS.

The youngest Kim is known for quickly punishing subordinates for even the slightest mistakes, according to the report.

Fujimoto has said Kim's sister is not married.

Iranian Crackdown on Un-Islamic Behaviour Will Backfire

30+ Iranian students lashed 99 times because of coed party

By Allen Cone

Iranian hard-line university students shout "death to America " as they gather in front of the Greek Embassy in Tehran, Iran on April 8, 2014. Students demonstrated over the recent human rights resolution passed by the European Parliament. Recently, some students were punished for hosting a coed graduatiuon party. FIle photo by Maryam Rahmanian/UPI | License Photo

TEHRAN, May 28 (UPI) -- More than 30 Iranian college students were arrested and given 99 lashes after they attended a co-ed graduation party, Iran's judiciary announced.

Prosecutor Esmail Sadeghi Niaraki said the women were described as "half naked," meaning they were not wearing Islamic coverings, scarves and long coats, and "dancing and jubilating."

Jubilating will get you every time! 'Half naked' actually means 'visible'; Islam likes to keep its women invisible, because its men seem to be completely devoid of self-control.

The prosecutor said authorities don't tolerate "law-breakers who use excuses such as freedom and having fun in birthday parties and graduation ceremonies," the Mizan News Agency reported.

The authorities received a report that a party attended was being held in a villa on the outskirts of Qazvin, about 90 miles northwest of the capital.

"We hope this will be a lesson for those who break Islamic norms in private places," Niaraki said.

The report by Iran's Mizan News Agency didn't say when the party occurred or give the students' names, ages or schools.

Lashings had been punishment since the Islamic revolution of 1979, but lately it's been more of a threat.

Iranian people are not generally intensely Islamic. They are probably more secular at heart, and I can't imagine such heavy-handedness by the theocratic state is going to win them many friends in this year's graduating class of students. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the spark that eventually lights a revolution of the revolution.

One day earlier, the state news media reported raids on parties in Kerman and at a "singles home" in Semnan, both provincial capitals.

Iran's judiciary earlier arrested eight people involved in online modeling without heads coverings and questioned a former model on state television.

God forbid, we wouldn't want men to find out that women have hair on their heads.