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Australian intelligence officials treating reports of Kim Jong-un's ill health seriously
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By Anthony Galloway
April 26, 2020 — 1.53pm

Australian intelligence officials are treating reports of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's ill health seriously, with concerns about the upheaval that would be created by a change of leader in the secretive and authoritarian state.
Australia is monitoring intelligence that Kim is in serious danger after undergoing cardiovascular surgery earlier this month, but has no definitive proof that he is in a vegetative state or is dead, according to senior government sources.









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There are reports the leader of North Korea is dead with speculation over the health of Kim Jong Un escalating, as he missed a major military parade just yesterday.




A Hong Kong broadcast network claimed over the weekend that Kim had died, citing a “very solid source", while a Japanese magazine reported that he was in “a vegetative state”.
A train possibly belonging to the North Korean leader was spotted at a resort town near the "leadership station" between April 21 and 23, according to satellite images reviewed by a Washington-based think tank which focuses on North Korea. The station is reserved for the use of Kim and his family, but there is no definitive proof the train was carrying the North Korean ruler.

38North, the Washington think tank, cautioned that 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," it said.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's train has been parked at the Leadership Railway.Credit:Maxar Technologies
The North Korean government has not responded to reports about Kim's health, while the country's media has not mentioned his health or whereabouts.
Kim hasn't been seen in public since April 11, sparking speculation that the 36-year-old might be seriously ill.

Rumblings have intensified since Kim failed to appear publicly on North Korea's most important holiday on April 15.
Daily NK, a South Korean online publication, reported that the North Korean leader underwent a cardiovascular procedure on April 12 that involved putting a stent into one of his arteries.
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Kim Jong-un shakes hands with US President Donald Trump in June 2019. There is now intense speculation over Kim's health.Credit:AP
Japanese magazine Shukan Gendai reported a Chinese doctor was sent to North Korea to treat the leader after a delay in the procedure resulted him falling critically ill.
A Chinese medic reportedly told the magazine that Kim clutched his chest and fell to the ground on a visit to the countryside.

A source within the Australian government said it was monitoring intelligence on Kim's health and leaning towards the dictator being in some kind of trouble, but there was no clear determination.
There are concerns within the Australian and US intelligence communities about who would succeed Kim if he was critically ill. The concern is heightened by the fact the potential upheaval in the North Korean regime would take place while the rest of the world is battling outbreaks of the coronavirus.
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Little is known about Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.Credit:AP
Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, would be among the candidates to take the job.
Believed to be in her early 30s, she is a somewhat mysterious figure, with basic details like her exact age unconfirmed by the North Korean regime.


Chinese medical experts sent to advise on North Korea’s Kim: sources
US President Donald Trump hosed down reports that Kim was gravely ill last week at a White House briefing, saying “I think the report was incorrect".
Mr Trump has met Kim three times as part of his mission top convince the North Korean leader to give up his nuclear weapons program, and has called him a friend.
Kim has been in power since 2011, when he took over after his father Kim Jong-il died.
 
I was surprised to learn how many Countries trade with North Korea, including Germany and Switzerland to a small extent. China being the main one but India and Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, Philippines. One of North Koreas biggest exports is coal which China swallows up with their dirty industries probably ?
 
The Fat Controller Triumphantly returns....mores the pity.


Kim Jong-un returns to ‘thunderous cheers at North Korean factory opening’

Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor | Jeroen Visser, Seoul
Saturday May 02 2020, 12.01am, The Times
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State media released a photograph purporting to show Kim Jong-un at the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertiliser Factory in Sunchon


Kim Jong-un is reported to have appeared in public, ending the rumours swirling for the past 20 days over his absence, with many speculating that he had died or gone into a coma.
North Korean state media said that the country’s supreme leader met a rapturous public reception when he opened a fertiliser factory yesterday in the centre of the country to mark International Workers’ Day on May 1. A photograph was released early today.
According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency, Mr Kim cut the tape at the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertiliser Factory in the city of Sunchon. “All the participants broke into thunderous cheers of ‘Hurrah!’ extending the greatest glory to the Supreme Leader, who has brought about a new change in the development of a fertiliser industry based on self- reliance,” the agency said. “[He] has led the grand revolutionary advance for strengthening self-supporting economy to a victory with his outstanding leadership.”

The choice of venue is significant. North Korea suffers from chronic shortages of food, and fertiliser is essential to boost its yields of rice in the spring planting season. Speaking “with deep emotion”, according to the report, Mr Kim said that his late grandfather, Kim Il-sung, and father, Kim Jong-il, “would be greatly pleased if they heard the news that the modern phosphatic fertiliser factory has been built”.
Many in the large crowd of people, described as officials of the army, were wearing face masks and standing some distance from the podium where Kim and his aides took part in the ceremony.

North Korea has not reported any cases of the coronavirus and has said it has been taking tough measures to prevent an outbreak. One suggestion for Kim’s absence was that he may have been taking precautions against coronavirus.
It was on the occasion of Kim Il-sung’s 108th birthday on April 15 that questions about Kim Jong-un’s wellbeing arose. He had been photographed four days earlier at a meeting of the Politburo, but was absent from ceremonies commemorating his grandfather, who founded North Korea.
Soon afterwards, rumours began to circulate, including one that Mr Kim was in a coma after heart surgery. He is thought to be 36 years old, but is obese and a smoker.
“We have to assume that something has happened,” said Thae Yong-ho, 57, said a former North Korean deputy ambassador to London, who defected in 2016. “This is quite unusual. Ever since he took power, Kim Jong-un has never missed the 15 April ceremony at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.” The building in Pyongyang serves as a mausoleum for the Kim dynasty.
A senior South Korean aide to President Moon of South Korea insisted that Mr Kim was “alive and well”. North Korea had continued to send out diplomatic messages in his name.
In his absence, there was intense speculation about who would take power in the nuclear-armed dictatorship if Mr Kim died. The consensus among experts was that it would fall to his sister, Kim Yo-jong, 32, who was said to have been among the senior aides who accompanied him to the fertiliser plant.
When asked about the KCNA report, President Donald Trump said: “I’d rather not comment on it yet.”
“We’ll have something to say about it at the appropriate time,” he told reporters at the White House.