April 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – KIM JONG-UN, North Korea’s Supreme Leader is dead – according to multiple sources coming out of North Korea and the Far East, though due to the hyper-secretive nature of the pariah state the exact picture remains unclear tonight.
It was being reported as fact by media outlets in China and Japan that the 36-year-old dictator was dead. Other sources said he was on his death bed in a vegetative state with no hope of resuscitation after botched heart surgery. Because of the nature of the ultra secret regime in North Korea claims of Kim Jong-un‘s death are very difficult to verify before an official state announcement.
The Chinese delegation left Beijing for North Korea on Thursday included doctors and CCP officials, according to three people familiar with the situation told Reuters.
The nature of China’s delegation was not announced and Beijing has so far refused to comment.
On Monday, speculation spread the North Korean leader was in ill health after undergoing heart surgery on April 12 after unconfirmed reports emerged – which were swiftly denied.
South Korean government officials and a Chinese official with the Liaison Department have challenged subsequent reports suggesting that Kim was in grave danger after surgery.
They said they had detected no signs of unusual activity in North Korea.
And on Thursday, US President Donald Trump also downplayed earlier reports that Kim was gravely ill.
He said: “I think the report was incorrect,” before declining to say if he had been in touch with North Korean officials.
On Friday, a South Korean source said their intelligence was that Kim was alive and would likely make an appearance soon.
The person said he did not have any comment on Kim’s current condition or any Chinese involvement.
An official familiar with US intelligence said that Kim was known to have health problems but they had no reason to conclude he was seriously ill or unable eventually to reappear in public.
When asked about Kim’s health, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo told Fox News: “I don’t have anything I can share with you tonight, but the American people should know we’re watching the situation very keenly”.
North Korea is one of the world’s most isolated and secretive countries and the health of its leaders is treated as a matter of state security.
State media from the hermit state last reported on Kim’s whereabouts when he presided over a meeting on April 11.
It did not report that he was in attendance at an event to mark the birthday of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, on April 15, an important anniversary in North Korea.
Amid reports that Kim’s health might be deteriorating there are fears about the dmonio effects the North Korean dictator’s death might have.
According to a South Korean official, the lack of a designated heir could throw the country into turmoil.
This may even lead to a civil war according to the source. A large refugee crisis is also said be highly possible.
The North Korean military is also expected to fight off any foreign intervention.
This would complicate any efforts by the US or South Korea to secure any of the nation’s weapons of mass destruction
Kim, 36, has disappeared from coverage in North Korean state media before.
In 2014, he vanished for more than a month and North Korean state TV later showed him walking with a limp. Speculation about his health has been fanned by his heavy smoking, apparent weight gain since taking power and family history of cardiovascular problems.
When Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Il, suffered a stroke in 2008, South Korean media reported at the time that Chinese doctors were involved in his treatment along with French physicians.
Last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping made the first state visit in 14 years by a Chinese leader to North Korea, an impoverished state that depends on Beijing for economic and diplomatic support.
China is North Korea’s chief ally and the economic lifeline for a country hard-hit by U.N. sanctions, and has a keen interest in the stability of the country with which it shares a long, porous border.
Kim is a third-generation hereditary leader who came to power after his father Kim Jong Il died in 2011 from a heart attack. He has visited China four times since 2018.
Mr Trump held unprecedented summits with Kim in 2018 and 2019 as part of a bid to persuade him to give up North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.
Kim Jong-un was born on 8 January 1983 and became Supreme Leader of North Korea on the death of his father Kim Jong-il in 2011.
A hateful little man who had political enemies executed in a number of increasingly bizarre ways he was simultaneously Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission, commander-in-chief, and member of the Presidium of the Politburo of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
He had unchecked and supreme control of the entire mechanics of state in the way no other national leader on the planet does.
He killed and imprisoned millions of opponents and used prisons and forced labour camps in a way not seen since the Nazis.
The United Nations has long accused him of “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations where the regime seeks to dominate every aspect of its citizens’ lives and terrorises them from within.”
Apart from being happy to slaughter his own people Kim also dreamed of become a nuclear power with the ability threaten the world.
So while millions of his countrymen starved Kim Jong-un spent untold millions of developing nuclear weapons and testing bombs and missiles.
Analysts became increasingly alarmed as his ham-fisted initial attempts developed into significantly capable missiles – all with the ability to be nuclear armed.
North Korea has threatened pre-emptive nuclear attacks against the US.
Famously in December 2015, Kim stated he had turned North Korea into what he called “a nuclear weapons state ready to detonate an A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation.”
Worst-case analysis suggest North Korea’s nuclear arsenal ranges between 15 and 60 bombs, probably including hydrogen bombs.
The latest-generation Hwasong-15 ICBM, based on Soviet technology, is capable of striking anywhere in the United States.
Respected fact-checking website Snopes refused to dismiss claims the reports of Kim Jong-un’s death were premature and only said: “This story is developing.”
Claims the leader was dead were further muddied tonight as news agency Reuters filed a story which said: “A special train, possibly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was spotted this week at a resort town in the country, according to satellite images reviewed by a Washington-based North Korea monitoring project, amid conflicting reports about Kim’s health and whereabouts.
“The monitoring project, 38 North, said in its report on Saturday that the train was parked at the “leadership station” in Wonsan on April 21 and April 23.”
The station is reserved for the use of the Kim family, the report added.
But it said: “The train’s presence does not prove the whereabouts of the North Korean leader or indicate anything about his health but it does lend weight to reports that Kim is staying at an elite area on the country’s eastern coast.”
