A spoof video, which shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un galloping away on a pig, doing the splits, and breakdancing with President Obama, has gone viral on social media in China and around the world.
The three-minute clip, which is translated as 'Fat Guy Number 3', is a montage of animated GIFs that spoof the dictator.
In one scene, the North Korean leader can be seen holding hands with Osama bin Laden while skipping through a meadow. In another, he's dancing with President Obama before sparring with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Russia’s president Vladmir Putin also made an appearance. The video ends with Kim Jong-Un galloping away on a large pig.
The video was reportedly produced by an “unnamed” Chinese man with 190,000 followers on Weibo — China's version of Twitter.
The man, who has been making Kim Jong-un GIFs for two years, wrote on his Weibo page that the video was "just for entertainment" and had no underlying political message.
The video was originally uploaded onto Chinese video-sharing site Tencent and has since been watched more than 55 million times, with some describing it as a "brilliant piece of mashup satire."
But according to a South Korean newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, the Kim Jong-un isn't impressed with the video's popularity.
It reports: "According to a source in China on Tuesday, the North feels the clip, which shows Kim dancing and Kung-Fu fighting, 'seriously compromises Kim's dignity and authority'."
North Korea reportedly asked China to ban the video but "Beijng was unable to oblige."
