by Evan Schwartz ’13

Over the past two weeks, the democratic world has been on edge in anticipation of North Korea’s supposed missile attack. However, the World Wide Web has taken the threats in a different direction as they poke fun at the not-so-threatening North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung-Un.

The portly, slightly “derp”-y leader has people on the Internet unable to take his very intimidating threats seriously. It’s difficult to imagine such an unintelligent looking person could have the courage to take such strong action. Doubters have created widely circulated Internet memes and gifs commenting on Jung-Un’s weight and brainpower, lessening peoples’ fear of an attack.

Following in the hugely infamous footsteps of his father and grandfather, Kim Jung-Un is just trying to flex his blow-up muscles in an attempt to assert his global standing. As the Internet has shown us, the man is truly just an attractively-challenged remnant of what was once a scary global force of evil.