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China sent a team including doctors to North Korea to advise the country on dictator Kim Jong-un, three sources told Reuters on Friday.
The delegation’s trip, which also includes Chinese officials, comes amid reports in the western press that the North Korean is undergoing treatment after undergoing cardiovascular surgery. (read more at the end of the story).
According to Reuters, nothing about Kim Jong-un’s health can be determined from reports of the Chinese delegation’s visit to the North Korean dictator.
Speculation about Kim’s state of health continues because, according to the South Korean Yonhap agency, the official newspaper of the North Korean regime did not give any news about the dictator’s activities in this Friday’s edition.
What is known about Kim’s condition
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Kim Jong-un, during a meeting of the Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party – Photo: STR / KCNA / Via KNS / AFP Photo
The rumors about Kim’s health started when, on April 15, he missed Kim Il-Sung’s 108th birthday celebrations – Grandfather of the current dictator and still considered the “Great Leader” of North Korea, he even died in 1994.
Days later, a website run by defectors from the regimen said Kim had undergone a “cardiovascular procedure.” In addition, White House sources even told the American press that the Kim’s condition was serious.
However, the information has not been confirmed by the governments of countries that monitor North Korea, such as South Korea, Japan and China, the North Korea’s government’s greatest ally. Subsequently, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, said he believed that the news about Kim’s health was false.
Considered one of the most closed regimes in the world, the North Korean government did not mention Kim’s health. The most recent publications in the KCNA state media report messages sent by the dictator to other allied heads of state in North Korea.
Is this the first time that Kim has gone public?
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Images released by the North Korean government’s communications agency show Kim Jong-un on a horse in 2019 – Photo: Disclosure
No. According to the South Korean Yonhap agency, there were other situations in which the dictator left the scene longer. Earlier this year, for example, he did not appear in public for 21 days.
Also, in 2014, he spent almost a month without news and limped back. After returning, it was confirmed that Kim had undergone surgery to remove a cyst from her ankle.
