can Kim Jong-un take a joke?

So if I haven't been doing much writing recently, at least I got to do a bit of commissioning.  On Saturday the folks at NK News. Org  issued a tweet asking for suggestions for the estimable Dr Andrei Lankov's latest column. I tweeted back wondering if the regime knew that the Kim dynasty  were figures of fun and whether they exploited the fact. Dr Lankov liked the idea, and here is the column.