A group of pranksters affiliated with 4chan have successfully managed to pull off their polling scheme to fix the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the TIME Magazine's Person of the Year, according to the Daily Dot.

You didn't think Kim Jong Un wouldn't have a say in all this madness, did you?

A slice of good news from North Korea today. And by "good" we mean better than hearing about human rights violations, and by "North Korea" we mean the place where this story came from.

Supreme leader Kim Jong Un reversed a 20-year-old rule -- implemented by Papa Bear himself -- banning women from riding bicycles. The law was originally mandated after Oh Hye Young, the daughter of National Defence Commission vice-chair Oh Geuk Ryeol, was killed by an automobile while riding a bicycle in the 1990s. The law was never strictly enforced outside Pyongyang, but it was still on the books, which means the old regime wasn't going to budge.

Ultimately, this change probably doesn't represent even a microscopic shift in ruling ideology, but at least Mr. Jong Un woke up on the right side of the bed one day, realized it was 2012 -- or whatever year their calendar claims it is -- and concluded that women can ride bicycles responsibly. Hooray for progress!

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Screengrab of the Day: The ultimate Kim Jong-un Looking At Things thing: Kim Jong-un looking at his father's body, put on display today at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang.

An 11-day mourning period is in effect, leading up to the official state funeral, set to take place on December 28th. Kim Jong-un was anoi

Follow Up of the Day: A North Korean state television presenter, clad all in black, tearfully announces the death of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il as a result of an "advanced acute myocardial infarction" brought on by "a great mental and physical strain."