Sunday, April 26, 2020

"North Korea's Kim 'alive and well': Seoul"

From AFP via Yahoo:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well", a top security adviser to the South's President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumours over Kim's health following his absence from a key anniversary.

"Our government position is firm," said Moon's special adviser on national security Moon Chung-in, in an interview with CNN on Sunday. "Kim Jong Un is alive and well."

The adviser said that Kim had been staying in Wonsan -- a resort town in the country's east -- since April 13, adding: "No suspicious movements have so far been detected."...MORE
That is definitely contra to Saturday's "N. Korea Dictator Kim Jong-un Reportedly Dead ... After Botched Heart Surgery" from TMZ who are usually pretty good about such things but maybe not so much in North Korea.

It does however, jibe with 38 North's report "Train Spotted at Kim Jong Un’s Wonsan Compound"
Leaving us to DPRK News:

Which I would swear was a rip-off of our "Could be that like the Norwegian Blue, he's jus' restin'.", except for their earlier timestamp. And the fact somewhere around a million people had the same thought.
That or Schrödingers Dictator.

Be all that as it may be, here is how we will think of 'lil coronary Kim for now:

as the band plays on: