Mick Hartley

Another photograph of dubious provenance released by the North Korean news agency (earlier here), purporting to show Kim Jong-Il alive and as tubby as ever*:

A closer look reveals that, in keeping with his superhuman feats in the struggle to build a great prosperous powerful nation with his Songun leadership, he casts a different shadow than those of his less well-favoured comrades:

 And causes the wall to lose its top line.

[Photo:Reuters]

* or, as described by a visiting dignitary from Myanmar, "the great brilliant commander endowed with matchless pluck and guts".