Kim Jong-un gained 40kg in four years: Could Be an Attempt at Slow Assassination

Kim Jong-un ascended the throne as a sprightly circa 30 year-old weighing in at a healthy 90 kilograms in 2012.

He has since consistently gained weight at around an estimated 10 kilograms per year, and now weighs in at an estimated 130 kg.

The leader of the Glorious Democratic Republic of North Korea is justifiably paranoid about assassination attempts, but could it be that assassination is being carried out by a new technique?

Well, not exactly new. The technique is tried and true, and has been used since ancient times in the east and west.

Castrated, fearful, minions feed the king as much flesh as he desires. Lower minions do the work of underlings. The working-class starve as the human pigs confiscate the produce of their labor. The supreme leader eventually dies by being overfed and is replaced by another. The people continue to starve, and the only ones who benefit are the middle class: the middlings who carry the trays of food from the farms to the palace.