Cheese-obsessed North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un boasts about drinking TEN bottles of Bordeaux wine in a single session
The dictator's former sushi chef claims his obsession with European cheese and wine could be behind weight gain
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly gaining huge amounts of weight because he can’t control his love of European cheeses and expensive wine.
The Kim family’s ex-sushi chef Kenji Fujimoto has claimed the dictator’s love of indulgent food and drink is also fuelling his struggle with alcohol-related issues.
Fujimoto told South Korean TV network Kim Jong-un once drank an expensive Bordeaux wine during dinner, and boasted he had consumed “10 bottles of Bordeaux” during a meal a few days before.
According to the chef, the 32-year-old dictator had been enjoying a meal with attractive North Korean women.
The hermit state’s super leader has piled on the pounds since becoming the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 2011.
He reportedly weighed in at a whopping 290 pounds in July.
He is believed to have developed a string of severe health problems, including diabetes, due to the weight gain.
Kim is known to be fond of Emmental cheese, which he developed a taste for at boarding school in Switzerland as a young boy.
In 2014, he is said to have sent North Korean officials on a trip to learn the art of cheese-making at a French cookery school, and grew frustrated when chefs in his home country failed to duplicate the flavours he enjoyed abroad.
In the same year, the North Korean tyrant developed a mystery illness which made it hard for him to walk, causing commentators to speculate gout was caused by his rich diet.
However, Workers’ Party of Korea officials refused to reveal the mystery illness, saying only that he was “suffering from discomfort”.
The chairman’s father, Kim Jong-il, was also known for making exaggerated claims.
The former supreme leader of North Korea once claimed he shot a world-record 38 under par in his very first round of golf, including a world-record 11 holes-in-one.
He retired from golf after his first game, boasting that he found the sport too easy.
He also claimed to have written six operas in two years, insisted he invented the hamburger, and claimed he learned to talk three weeks after he was born.
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