The theory that “American” capitalists make up these stories for clickbait purposes is wrong, simply for the reason newspapers are not profitable enterprises. They don’t make money in the first place, online and especially not in print. Newspapers are largely owned by billionaires to spread their own personal bullshit, and actually cost them money to keep in business. This is a fairly well known and documented phenomenon that has become especially pronounced with the age of the internet.

The idea that they could be spreading stories about Kim Yo Jong to discredit her makes more sense to me. It is undoubtedly true that the stories about Robert Mugabe’s wife had a great deal to do with the Emmerson Mnangagwa coup in Zimbabwe. However, the difference here is that all educated people in Zimbabwe speak English, and there are much less restrictions on the flow of imperialist propaganda there, whereas this is not the case in Uncircumcised (North) Korea.

My own guess is that it is simply aimed at English-speaking people. It isn’t meant to play on the sexism of Korean men, but on English-speaking men who already think of socialism as effeminate in some way. There is a reason, after all, why Hollywood wanted to insinuate Kim Jong Un is a homosexual in that film The Interview. Instead of an insinuation that anything socialism is effeminate and gay, by trying to portray their leaders as effeminate and gay in Hollywood propaganda, why not just insinuate the real leader of the country is a woman? Such thoughts only come to the mind of liberals in charge of managing the stupid whites on the ‘Right,’ who they imagine only hated Hillary Clinton because she didn’t have a penis.