North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un rumoured to be dead

North Korea’s Supreme Leader/dictator, Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation, according to media outlets in China and Japan.

According to a Hong Kong broadcast network, while a Japanese magazine is reporting that North Korea’s rocket man is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month.

A vice director of HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television, a Beijing-backed broadcast network in Hong Kong, claimed that Kim was dead, citing a “very solid source.”

Her post on the Chinese messaging app Weibo has been shared widely on social media, according to a report in the International Business Times.

Other unconfirmed reports, attributed to senior party sources in Beijing, said an operation to insert a stent went wrong because the surgeon’s hands were shaking so badly. (New York Post)

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