Kim Jong-un’s heavy frame could finally be explained… as it emerges he spent his youth as a WEIGHTLIFTER
A North Korea expert says tubby tyrant Kim Jong-un may be flabby because of his time as a weightlifter
NORTH Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un is overweight because he used to be a hardcore WEIGHTLIFTER, it has been claimed.
has raised eyebrows across the world because he has ballooned while millions of his people struggle to survive in the impoverished nation.
A North Korea expert says tubby tyrant Kim Jong-un may be flabby because of his time as a weightlifter.
Most Pyongyang observers believe his tubbiness is down to his love of fine dining and expensive booze.
But Michael Madden, who runs the analysis blog North Korea Leadership Watch, says Kim started pumping iron after he returned to the Stalinist nation after being privately schooled in Europe.
Mr Madden told the : "If you see pictures from Kim Jong-un in 2009, you see a guy who is actually just a really big, bulky muscular kind of fella.
"And what happens to people when they stop lifting weights?
"It turns into flab."
In recent years weightlifting has become the most successful sport for North Korea, which came second in the weightlifting medal count at the London 2012 Olympics and fourth in Rio in 2016.
It has also made the top four at the past three world championships.
Kim has been stung about by jibes about his weight in the past.
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