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Can Kim Jong Un control the weather? North Korea’s state-run media says so.

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North Korea appears to be taking a lesson from the ancient Egyptians, essentially deifying the leader of the country. On a mountain peak, he controlled the weather. He’s also formulated a cure for AIDS, Ebola and some cancers. But wait, there’s more.
North Korea appears to be taking a lesson from the ancient Egyptians, essentially deifying the leader of the country. On a mountain peak, he controlled the weather. He’s also formulated a cure for AIDS, Ebola and some cancers. But wait, there’s more.
In rare free moments, when Kim Jong Un isn’t calling President Donald Trump a dotard, launching ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan or engaging in general dictatoring, he apparently goes on leisurely mountain hikes and flexes his never-before-reported superpower: controlling the weather.
The case for the North Korean leader’s cameo role in a new X-Men movie came during a brisk two-mile stroll up snowy Mount Paektu a week or so ago, as reported by the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency.
The 9,000-foot mountain is normally a wintry mess in December, according to the news agency, but during Kim’s visit, it was a “marvelous scene with glee at the reappearance of its great master.” When Kim ascended to the top, the mountain showed “fine weather unprecedented.”
It was obviously an homage to Kim, KCNA reported, the man “who controls the nature.”
The fine weather was fortuitous, as pictures showed Kim made the arduous trek up the mountain in dress slacks and shiny leather shoes.
Of course, it should be said that KCNA and other state-sponsored media are known for making a wide variety of claims about North Korea’s leaders. Among them:
• Kim Jong Un and Korean scientists formulated a miracle drug, according to Newsweek — a combination of ginseng and “rare earth elements” that, with one injection, can cure or treat AIDS, Ebola, many cancers, heart disease, impotence, the common cold, “harm from use of computers,” epilepsy, all forms of hepatitis, venereal disease and aging.

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