People Think Kim Jong-Un Is Using A Body Double

The Supreme Leader was recently filmed at the military parade to celebrate North Korea's 73rd anniversary. You can see how he looks here:

Instead of assuming that the North Korean politician - who has been the Supreme Leader since 2011 - has dragged himself down to the local gym or even bagged himself a PT, people have jumped to a much wilder conclusion.

One thing's for sure, he's lost quite a bit of timber which left him visibly slimmer than at the start of the year.

Experts say the weight loss is likely an attempt to improve his health, rather than a sign of illness since he has continued his regular public activity.

Taking to Twitter, one wrote: "Did Kim Jong-Un get surgery or something? Or did he secretly die and get replaced with a skinny body double?"

Another added: "That's not him, surely?! Must be a body double (they couldn't even get that right)."

And a third commented: "Recently Kim Jong-un shedded lots of pounds, but the Japanese say it was his body double."

Despite people's concern over his health, government officials insisted that not only was Jong-un in perfectly good health but that he had also lost weight as a result of worrying about his people and their ongoing food shortages, which has been blamed on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

One source, residing in the city of Sariwon, south of the capital Pyongyang, claimed that neighbourhood watch units there have warned people not to gossip about Jong-un's health.