Stephen Colbert mocks Kim Jong Un's giddiness over North Korean lube

Stephen Colbert mocks Kim Jong Un&#039;s giddiness over North Korean lube

(Image credit: Colbert Report)

last updated 8 January 2015

Kim Jong Un is usually so stern and dour in photographs that a picture of him grinning at an industrial lubricant factory has Stephen Colbert rethinking everything he thought he knew about the young North Korean dictator. "Beneath that sad expression, Kim Jong Un just might be be Kim Jong Fun," Colbert said on Wednesday night's Colbert Report. "I mean, just look at that smile!" Watch below for some lube jokes and barbed laughs at Kim's despotic regime. --Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.