Just because a story seems plausible doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be checked.
Not sure if you mean I should be checking or the People's Daily, but if you go to the People's Daily and do a search on "Kim Jong Un" you get:
North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012 (55)
... by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online U.S. website The Onion has named North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive for the year 2012". "With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his bo...
http://english.people.com.cn/102774/8036972.html 2012.11.2
When you click on the link it takes you to the front page and it is all in Chinese so I have no way of knowing where to click to access the article.