Twenty days later, Kim Jong Un first appeared in public. The North Korean leader has not attended several major events in recent weeks, so more and more people believe that the Pyongyang dictator is seriously ill or has already died.

According to a report by the North Korean news agency KCNA, Kim Jong Un appeared at the opening of a fertilizer factory and she cut the ribbon. “The factory workers erupted in stormy cheers when they saw the driver,” wrote KCNA. However, the veracity of the KCNA report cannot be judged, as the news agency has not yet attached photos of the alleged factory opening.

Ahead of this occasion, Kim recently appeared at a ruling party political committee meeting at a public event on April 11. In the past few weeks, there have been several reports that the North Korean dictator had surgery, and since then his condition has begun to deteriorate. There were also rumors that Kim had already died.



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