North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un Has Reportedly Died, Per Chinese And Japanese News Outlets
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According to various Chinese and Japanese news outlets, North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un “has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation”, TMZ reports.
While specifics are not yet available, reports indicate that Kim Jong-un reportedly died due to complications from heart surgery.
In addition to the TMZ, Laura Bassett — a politics columnist at GQ Magazine — reports that the 26-year-old North Korean dictator is “at least brain dead, possibly dead”, which sets up his sister — 31-year-old Kim Yo Jong — to become the first-ever female leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The woman put the report on a social media app called Weibo for her nearly 15 million followers to read, citing a “very solid source” about the claim Kim had, in fact, perished. A Japanese magazine reports he’s in a “vegetative state” after a heart surgery gone wrong.
The outlet reports — citing a Chinese medical expert privy to the situation — that Kim had clutched his chest in early April and fell down while visiting the countryside there. He needed a stent procedure done, but apparently … it either wasn’t done rapidly enough, or it was botched completely by the surgeon — with some reports saying he had shaky hands. [via TMZ]
Kim Jong-un first became dictator of North Korea in 2011 following the death of his father Kim Jong-il, who held the position from July 1994 until December 2011.
In June 2018, Jong-un became the first North Korean leader to meet with a sitting United States President when he and Donald Trump met for a summit in Singapore.
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