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Defender: Sorry for guessing about Kim’s health
A North Korean defender apologizes for his theory that eccentric dictator Kim Jong-Un is probably so ill that he cannot bear his legs.
Kim Jong-Un cuts ties during a visit to an artificial fertilizer plant in Sunchon, near North Korea’s capital Pyongyang.
The statement came after Kim had been out of the spotlight for several weeks, prompting speculation about her health. Last Saturday, however, the North Korean leader unexpectedly appeared at an opening ceremony for an artificial fertilizer plant. Kim smoked and hung, apparently as healthy as a grain of meat.
– I am aware that one of the reasons why many of you voted for me is the expectation of correct analysis and accurate predictions in questions about North Korea. I am ashamed and feel a great responsibility, says Thae Yong-Ho, who fled to South Korea in 2016 and has since been elected to parliament, according to Reuters news agency.
Another advocate who is also sitting in South Korea’s parliament, Ji Seong-Ho, said in an interview that he is 99 percent sure that Kim died after cardiovascular surgery.
Background: oppression, hunger and misery
Communist North Korea was founded with Soviet assistance in 1948, as Korea was divided into a US and a Soviet occupation zone after World War II. A civil war between North and South broke out in 1950–53, after North Korean troops crossed the border and attacked.
Both countries have never made peace, but a ceasefire still prevails. A four kilometer wide demilitarized zone separates the two countries.
North Korea’s official ideology celebrates “national independence” and “self-sufficiency.” In practice, it has meant isolationism, oppression and hunger.
Arbitrary arrests of critics of the regime, lack of legal certainty and torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in the country’s prisons and detention centers are extensive. The data also shows that the country practices public executions for crimes such as the theft of state property and food hoarding, as well as serious crimes. According to Amnesty International and the people who moved to North Korea during the 2000s, there are large work camps for dissidents.
