Chinese netizens are no longer allowed to mock North Korea’s leader online. A search for “little fatty Kim the third,” which previously gave millions of results, brings up nothing.
Politburo Standing Committee member Liu Yunshan visited North Korea on October 10, to attend a parade for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s Worker’s Party. Subsequently, the Chinese mocking nickname for Kim was blocked from Chinese search engines.
The Chinese media speculated that the change most likely comes from China’s need to improve relations with North Korea.
“Little fatty Kim the third,” previously brought up 15.7 million entries on Baidu as of July 2014, according to South Korea’s Yonhap. Chinese Netizens previously used the term when criticizing the Korean leader. Another popular nickname in China for Kim is simply, “fatty the third.”
In 2014, Chinese censors were indifferent to the insulting nicknames for Kim, however, as of this month, Chinese authorities have begun to clean up negative content related to Kim Jong-Un.
Source: dwnews.com
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Why does China need to improve relations with North Korea? They need to improve relations with the West. Who gives a s**** about North Korea. They're an ineffectual hermit kingdom that's addicted to meth.
Oct 15, 2015 16:30 Report Abuse
So only the young'un? So it is still ok to refer to African leaders and Obama as primates like I have been seeing on same said online outlets? What a joke!
Oct 15, 2015 09:49 Report Abuse
Banning opinions won't make him any more respectable or legit in people's minds. Probably the opposite in fact.At least he won't need to read about it online though, and he can still pretend he's the 'Dear Leader'. You can't really blame the censors, China needs to keep the weird little boy from starting WW3, it can't be an easy thing to do. Kudos for trying.
Oct 14, 2015 23:05 Report Abuse
I guess that's one way for China to improve relations with its neighbors...
Oct 14, 2015 21:58 Report Abuse
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