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27 November 2012

China People’s Daily republishes Onion article naming Kim Jong Un “sexiest man alive“

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By Martha Gill

The official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party seems to have been taken in by a satirical story from the Onion, which proclaimed Kim Jong Un the “sexiest man alive” in 2012.

The People’s Daily republished the Onion report almost in full, including such sentences as:

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