TIME, THE ONION (USA)

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Even though Kim Jong-un seemed like a shoe-in for Time’s Person Of The Year 2012, having accumulated more online votes than anyone by far, the magazine announced today that Barack Obama had won the coveted title instead.

Barack Obama is TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year | ti.me/VQVajw #POY2012

— TIME.com (@TIME) December 19, 2012

The historic portrait of President Obama by Nadav Kander was made Dec. 12 at the White House. @time twitter.com/patrickwitty/s…

— Patrick Witty (@patrickwitty) December 19, 2012

Kim Jong-un was very fair-play about the decision…

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Photo: petersnoopy

Time, Shmime… More importantly, Kim Jong-un was voted 2012 Sexiest Man Alive by the satire news website the Onion. There, there, Kim, we’ve made you a special cover:

Photomontage: Worldcrunch

And anyway, the North Korean leader has more awesome things to do with his time: