According to the official mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, North Korea’s newest supreme leader, Kim Jung Un, is the sexiest man alive for 2012.
China’s People Daily reached their oddball conclusion after taking an article from the satirical news Web site The Onion seriously.
“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,” the People’s Daily quoted from The Onion.
“Kim made this newspaper’s editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile,” China’s newagency continued in their quotation.
China is the second foreign power to take The Onion too seriously, earlier this year Iran’s official news agency plagiarized The Onion’s article, “Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama.”
In Iran’s case, the Persian country simply lifted fake information from The Onion which said that rural white Americans would rather vote for their president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, than President Obama.
China, on the other hand, seemed to have simply missed the fact that The Onion’s article was a joke, thus overlooking some obvious clues to the article’s falsity.
For example, The Onion has a history of choosing clearly unsexy men for their award. In 2011 they chose Syria’s despotic President Bashar al-Assad, in 2010 they went with ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and in 2008 they picked Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber.