Apparently Kim’s minions have conveyed their displeasure at the nickname in a meeting with their Chinese counterparts.

If you search for the Chinese words "Jin San Pang" on the search engine Baidu and microblogging platform Weibo you no longer get any results.  The Chinese are amused at Kim's weight and his status as the third generation of the Kim family to rule the world's only hereditary communist party.

"Kim Fatty the Third" is such a widely used term in China that it is sometimes suggested by auto-complete algorithms on web portals such as Baidu, China's leading search engine. While searches for "Jin San Pang" returned no results this week, Baidu left untouched results for other versions of the nickname, such as "Kim Fat Fat Fat."

It's especially popular among young, irreverent Chinese who tend to wonder why their government props up this anti-aircraft gun murdering psychopath with an obsession with cheese.

Relations between China and North Korea since Kim put down his cheese knife and started building nukes. China has condemned along with South Korea, Japan, the United States and Russia. But Beijing continues to support the Kim regime with limited trade and diplomatic backing.

North Korean officials were worried that Kim would find out about the nickname and shoot their loved ones with heavy weaponry during an extended wine and cheese evening. So they lodged a formal request with

China recently to prohibit names disparaging Kim from appearing in the media, according to Hong Kong newspaper reports.

However Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that reports of the banning of "Jin San Pang" didn't "comply with facts."

"The Chinese government stays committed to building a healthy and civilised environment of opinions. We disapprove of referring to the leader of any country with insulting and mocking remarks."

So we are not sure what that means. Have they banned it or not?