Crushing On N. Korea's "Twisted Sister"

As the world speculated on the health of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un for several weeks, until he reemerged at the ribbon cutting for (wait for it) a fertilizer factory, his younger sister Kim Yo Jong was getting renewed attention as a likely successor if her unhealthy brother had died. She's clearly trusted (for now) by her brother, who has shown no hesitation in the past for eliminating close family members who he imagines are a threat to him. In a fascinating article in Foreign Policy, Laura Teixeira also noted an uptick in "online crushes" for the 32 year old "Yo" similar to the kind reserved for popular amime figures and female pop stars.

Contrasting lustful crushes on such unlikely people as Margaret Thatcher to the current ones for "Yo," Teixeira writes:

"But the outpouring of prurient interest in Kim represents an intersection of these erotic fantasies with the potent force of Orientalism—in which the Western audience projects fantasies onto the unknown East and at the same time seeks to render it intelligible with symbols and generalizations.

In East Asia, this hasn’t been just about female leaders but the combination of feminine appeal and societies deemed dangerous or mysterious. For instance, there has been little erotic interest from Western audiences in either former South Korean President Park Geun-hye or Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. Both states are secular democracies and staunch allies of the United States."

So for many of "Yo's" internet fanboys, it appears to be related to both physical appeal and, importantly, her prominent role in the dangerous, tyrannical North Korean regime, in sort of a weird dominatrix fantasy for them. (In reading this article, it reminded us of demagogue and Very Stable Genius Donald "I Alone Can Fix It" Trump's fondness for dictators like Kim Jong Un in much the same way, but without -- we presume-- the physical appeal). In any event, coming from a tyrannical dynasty, it's certain that "Yo" is no enlightened angel, and would follow in her brother's footsteps if and when given the opportunity.