If you happen to’ve seen pictures of Kim Jong Un strutting across the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, don’t panic — it’s only a look-alike inflicting all of the chaos!
An Australian music producer, who goes by Howard X on X, is infamous for his aspect hustle moonlighting because the North Korean dictator … and he struck once more, making a dramatic entrance to cheer on North Korea’s Pang Chol-mi as she battled China’s Chang Yuan within the girls’s boxing semi-finals.
Howard was additionally noticed waving North Korea’s flag … and he took a daring swipe at China’s chief Xi Jinping by flaunting a Winnie the Pooh teddy bear final Sunday. ICYDK, the character’s been banned in China as a result of satirical comparisons with Xi.
Howard documented his antics on X … making it crystal clear he was mocking the North Korean delegation, regardless of having angered North Korean officers 6 years earlier doing the identical factor on the PyeongChang Winter Video games.
Chinese language onlookers burst into laughter after they noticed him with the Winnie the Pooh teddy bear … so, appears like no offense was taken — in Paris at the least.
Howard’s presence didn’t flip the tide for Pang, who misplaced to Chang. However he wasn’t accomplished — he was additionally seen at North Korea’s table-tennis match towards Japan, and even teamed up with a Vladimir Putin look-alike for a photograph in entrance of the Notre Dame cathedral.
Appears Howard’s not terrified of Kim, who’s been linked to quite a few brutal acts, together with ordering the 2017 assassination of his half-brother, Kim Jong-nam.
The ethical to the story … it is all enjoyable and video games, till it is not.
