By Urszula Jabłońska (Gazeta Wyborcza)
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Anna Fifield is a New Zealand journalist. She currently heads the Washington Post office in Beijing. She wrote about North Korea from 2004 to 2008 and visited the site several times. She is the author of the book The Great Successor. The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (The great successor. The divinely perfect destiny of brilliant comrade Kim Jong-un).
The whole world is laughing at Kim Jong-un. The Internet is awash with memes from the series "Kim is watching things", Donald Trump calls him "the rocket man". Why is it so easy to laugh at the North Korean leader?
Anna FIFIELD - Kim Jong-un lends flank to caricature. He's got a lot of extra pounds, a weird hairstyle, whimsical outfits, and he does a lot of nonsense - like posing with a Hello Kitty satchel or by the side of big tubs of lube. It looks like a little dictator out of a comic book or the bad guy in a James
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