Sure, he’s shooting a lot more people, but their widows have cuter shoes!

ABC’s Joohee Choe has written the single dumbest, most superficial thing about North Korea ever to dress itself in drag as journalism.

Attempting to forge a new image for himself and his country, North Korea’s youthful supreme leader Kim Jong Un is allowing women to wear pants, platform shoes and earrings, making more mobile phones available, endorsing previously banned foods like pizza, French fries and hamburgers — and he’s giving kids free trips to zoos and amusement parks.

The 20-something leader’s focus has been on the younger generation. Following in the footsteps of his late grandfather, the country’s founder Kim Il Sung, he has announcing plans to create a “children’s heaven nation.”

“It’s all part of his image making to imitate a warm, fatherly impression like his grandfather,” said Dong Yong-Sueng, North Korea specialist at Samsung Economic Research Institute.

I mean, seriously … for fuck’s sake.  What background research did she do about North Korea, or about what Kim Jong Un has done in the last six months, that she didn’t read on TMZ?