North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been in a coma for months and all of his recent public appearances have gone bankrupt, a South Korean official said in a new report on the reclusive despot.
Chang Song-min, a former ally of late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, claimed that Kim became seriously ill this year amid speculation about his limited public appearances.
In April, rumors circulated that the Hermit Kingdom honcho was in a vegetative state after a botched heart operation.
The former aide now claims that Kim came into a coma months ago and that his next appearances were recorded earlier, according to the UK’s Sun.
“I judge that he is in a coma, but his life has not ended,” he told South Korean media, adding that the leader’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, was committed to leading the country.
“A complete follow-up structure has not been formed, so Kim Yo-jong will be brought forward because the vacuum cannot be maintained for an extended period,” he said.
In a closed-door meeting last week, the National Intelligence Service said the change of power was in part trying to “release stress (Kim’s) stress from his government and dismissal of debt in case of policy error,” the Yonhap News Agency reported.
Photos appeared Thursday in which Kim attended a government meeting, although Reuters reported that it could not “independently” display the images.
The Daily NK, a South Korea-based news outlet about the North, reported that sources in the rogue regime have claimed that Kim’s sister is trying to secure her position in Pyongyang by taking over the South.
“She can not govern the country like her brother, so she is expanding her authority through the propaganda and agitation department, just like her father Kim Jong-il,” a source told The Sun.
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