# Kim Jong Un is a Fatty...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 11, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-a-fatty/652651 "2013-03-11T20:09:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-a-fatty/652651/21 "2013-03-12T13:19:37Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Based on [this photo](http://rt.com/files/news/1e/4d/90/00/north-korea.si.jpg), everyone in North Korea needs to go on a diet.

You’d expect him to keep his army well-fed. You don’t want a bunch of starving men with guns charged with protecting your fat butt, would you?

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-a-fatty/652651/22 "2013-03-13T02:35:28Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> You’d expect him to keep his army well-fed. You don’t want a bunch of starving men with guns charged with protecting your fat butt, would you?

Nope, soldiers starve too.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-a-fatty/652651/23 "2013-03-13T14:32:45Z")

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This just in: The Great Fatty One [leads a daring expedition](http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WO-AM991_KOREAS_G_20130312184134.jpg) to capture the last American stockpile of Hostess Twinkies.

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**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-a-fatty/652651/24 "2013-03-13T14:49:15Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I just looked it up - he’s “Outstanding Leader” - but of course. :rolleyes:

That’s because of all those tiny doors over there… once they’re widened… he’ll be in like Flynn.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-a-fatty/652651/25 "2013-03-13T17:07:46Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> You’d expect him to keep his army well-fed. You don’t want a bunch of starving men with guns charged with protecting your fat butt, would you?

> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Nope, soldiers starve too.

The military does eat first, but like Wesley has said, they are still very poorly rationed. Especially at the bottom ranks, where soldiers have been seen living on soup and so forth. More than what many people North of Pyongyang get, but still not a lot.

This movie, which I swear was online free in its entirety at one point, shows soldiers eating soup and so forth while people beg for food. My linking is not working now, but it’s about 50 seconds in.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TgBBTANnG10/maxresdefault.jpg "Seoul Train") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBBTANnG10)

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