All rumors about Kim Jong Un feeding his uncle to dogs has been based on one joke on TenCent Weibo.
Last week, Western media began circulating rumors that Kim Jong Un might've fed his uncle to dogs. They cited Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper, which broke the story on Dec. 12.
The Wen Wei Po story based the claim on a single post by @choiseungho000 on TenCent, a Twitter-like microblogging site.
But on Jan. 4, blogger Trevor Powell noted that ChoiSeungHo is also one of China's most popular internet trolls.
Choi has 2 million followers on Sina Weibo (TenCent's rival site). Online, he poses as a naively patriotic cub reporter from Pyongyang. His true identity, though, is a mystery to most people in China, and readers don't often know how to gauge his seriousness.
Here are talk show hosts discussing Choi's online notoriety on China' iFeng Channel.
