Six degrees

Billy Corgan, the frontman and founding member of multiplatinum rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, will hit the AsiaWorld-Expo stage on Tuesday night with three new Pumpkins in tow, providing he doesn’t throw another of his well-documented rock-star tantrums. Corgan (right) also channels his passions into independent wrestling – in 2011 he started Resistance Pro, a wrestling promotion company. Previous to this he had stepped into the bodyslamming limelight when he took to the ring at an event following the withdrawal of a friend, former basketball star Dennis Rodman …

North Korea’s supreme leader, favoured over his elder half-brother, Jong-nam, as the “Great Successor” following the latter’s failed attempt to visit Tokyo’s Disneyland on a fake passport, recently attended a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean war. In a monumental parade of military power, thousands of mini-skirted female soldiers marched in inch-perfect unison before their well-nourished leader. Last year, Kim’s glamorous wife, the 20-something Ri Sol-ju, was photographed carrying a handbag considered to be worth the average annual salary of a North Korean, from the fashion house of Christian Dior …