We're not here to debate whether or not North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is the sexiest man alive. No, we're here to snicker that The Onion fooled China's communist paper into thinking it so. The actual article from the People's Daily Online, the official newspaper of China's communist party, isn't much more than taking a few quotes from the Onion article and smacking them onto a 55-PAGE SLIDESHOW GALLERY of Kim looking all majestic and whatnot.
And another photo from People's Daily, which we guess is their stab at depicting Kim's sexiness (if this is a meta-joke People's Daily, tell us now). That "(21)" is the 21st picture in the 55-image slideshow (in case you thought we were kidding with that 55-page funny business):
The actual Onion article satirically congratulating Kim for his sexiness first appeared on November 14. "With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true," reads the original article which was copied and pasted word for word sans satire in the People's Daily. "Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile," both articles read. Okay fine, this isn't the first time the Onion fooled a foreign paper—back in September they fooled Iran's news agency into thinking "Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama"—and hopefully it won't be the last.
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