Japanese TV broadcast that Kim Jong Un is dead.

[Kablooie]

This is from the International Business Times Singapore.
The picture chyron is in Japanese and says the Kim Jong Un is dead.
I don't know where they got it from.

Unconfirmed reports about North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's death appeared online after China sent doctors to North Korea to help determine his current health status

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https://www.ibtimes.sg/korean-peninsula-expert-believes-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-dead-pictures-reports-flood-social-43729?utm_source=Internal&utm_medium=Homepage&utm_campaign=block1-2

[SheltieLover]

1. Covid?

[Kablooie]

2. They say heart surgery but who knows?

[SheltieLover]

5. I'd read he has/had heart problems

Covid would exacerbate.

[cstanleytech]

27. Exploratory to find how if he even had one? I mean you do have to be pretty heartless to

have your own brother assassinated with nerve toxin.

[2naSalit]

32. Maybe...

He got the virus and took -45's stupid drug and it killed him? Maybe that's why the brief briefing yesterday?

[Hortensis]

33. Both? Heart disease increases risk big time. Obesity,

who knows what else?

One rumor is that Kim is in a "beach resort lockdown" after some around him came down with COVID.

If that picture's real, someone put his or her life, or lives, on the line to get it out, or perhaps it's from a stream of intelligence from a deep agent which was leaked.

[mercuryblues]

38. OK I read that as bleach resort

And I was thinking trump accidently did something good. Boy he is going to be pissed. LOL

[Hortensis]

39. Lol. New rumor: Trump got the idea of drinking bleach from Kim.

[mercuryblues]

40. LOL

[still_one]

3. Interesting, trump jumped on the MSM saying they were propagating this

false information

[SheltieLover]

11. And I think he also demanded

reporters not pursue this story, didn't he? I do not watch him. No stomach or patience for bs.

[still_one]

13. I also do not watch him, and feel the same as you

[Lock him up.]

17. Remember, everything he says, the opposite is true. n/t

[still_one]

18. +++

[cstanleytech]

29. Not everything............just everything after the first syllable.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. The delay in reporting his death is about right.

It hardly matters the cause of death. At least not in my meaningless opinion.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Still, somebody's gonna get the anti-aircraft gun treatment.

[Demovictory9]

6. may Satan drag that monster straight to hell

[Kablooie]

10. And take his orange lover with him.

[ooky]

44. If there is a Hell they'll have their reunion.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I just read this from Reuters...

"Exclusive: China sent team including medical experts to advise on North Korea’s Kim, sources say".

"The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean leader. Reuters was unable to immediately determine what the trip by the Chinese team signaled in terms of Kim’s health.

A delegation led by a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department left Beijing for North Korea on Thursday, two of the people said. The department is the main Chinese body dealing with neighbouring North Korea."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-politics-exclusive-idUSKCN2263DW

And Newsweek...
https://www.newsweek.com/china-sends-doctors-north-korea-tv-report-fuels-speculation-kim-jong-un-dead-1500181

[SheltieLover]

12. Interesting

TY!

[Baclava]

24. Sending in the Chinese bigwig embalmers? They gonna display him for 10 years like Stalin?

[rusty quoin]

8. If true, so what.

[Cirque du So-What]

16. Power vacuum with attendant struggles in a rogue state with nuke weapons

What could go wrong?

[cstanleytech]

30. Or right. Depends on who replaces him really but yes its a gamble.

[Hortensis]

34. AND millions of refugees potentially pouring over the

border into China. It's been a long-time concern.

China keeps military along that border for that reason, in addition to the usual ones, who are supposed to be prepared to halt and feed and shelter potentially millions.

And now COVID.

[ZZenith]

14. Anybody know how to send flowers to the White House?

Our president is going to be so distraught.

[Harker]

15. Which, if true, might well lead to several executions

in a festival of power grabbing.

[Squidly]

19. Only several?

[Harker]

25. Well... could also be a bloodbath, of course.

I'm prone to understatement.

[Princess Turandot]

20. That isn't him: I think that's his father's corpse..

This photo is from early April. He looks a step away from congestive heart failure, bloated as well as overweight. He apparently had some kind of a cardiac intervention recently, described in one of the unsubstantiated rumors as 'an emergency stent implantation'. If that's true, he likely had a heart attack, or was on the verge of one, and then did not regain consciousness after the procedure.

Link to tweet

[Quixote1818]

45. Think you're right. Looks more like the dad. nt

[canetoad]

21. That's a relief

The uncertainty over whether he was alive or dead was driving me crazy.

[EndlessWire]

43. LOL! n/t

[blogslut]

22. That image is all over twitter

Some people say it's been shopped from an image of his dad(?)

I don't know. For every tweet from a bluecheck account, there's a bunch of replies denying or confirming. Just saw an article from an Australian site that says he's "been seen" on one of their beaches.

He's dead and he's alive and has been twitter-compared to Schroedinger's Cat.

[sop]

23. Remember...Everything Trump Touches Dies

[cstanleytech]

31. Nearly everything. His ex wives and his current one are still alive after all.

Unless of course any of them have dirt on Putin in which case their days are numbered as he does so like to have people assassinated.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. 4:40 a.m. EDT: There's nothing at the Associated Press. NT

[Hortensis]

35. The threat of NKans fleeing COVID and perhaps starvation

is very real. The prospect of potentially millions of NK refugees pouring over their borders has long been a big concern to China and South Korea. There's speculation, for instance, that in such an event NK's large military would be fighting for supplies and survival, leading to chaos and civil war.

NK's been denying COVID there. Last week there was reported panic buying among the relatively privileged residents of Pyoangyang. Of course, we know how routinely that word's misused. Worried people stocking up seems more likely from the description, but still an indicator of something.

From NYT 3 days ago:

Three generations of totalitarian misrule have left North Korea woefully incapable of containg, or even suppressing, a coronavirus epidemic. The same intelligent (and malevolent) design that has turned the country into the world’s most exquisitely oppressive police state has also inadvertently converted it into a prospective infection deathtrap.

North Korea’s notorious gulag camps and prisons, as well as its military barracks, are petri-dishes-in-waiting for communicable disease. The government’s worst-in-class transparency practices ensure that it will automatically censor information (bad news in particular) that might help identify the coronavirus and limit its spread. Longstanding economic failure means that much of the population is poorly nourished and vulnerable to infection.

North Korea ranked 193rd out of 195 countries in Johns Hopkins University’s 2019 survey of global health security. Decades of ruthless control on foreign travel and contact with outsiders mean that many of its people may also be unusually “immunologically naïve” (yes: this is an actual epidemiological term of art).

[octoberlib]

36. Katie Tur tweeted this and then deleted a couple

days ago.

[EndlessWire]

46. If that's true

I think it means that he is brain dead, and they want to pull the plug after showing the Chinese, to make absolutely sure he isn't going to wake up. The Chinese would have a vested interest in this matter.

And, other parts of their government and military might need the unbiased opinion of an outsider (Yup, he's really most sincerely dead) in order to mitigate reactions.

Since I remember Otto Warmbier, I really don't care about Lil Kim's fate, except that I wish NK would get a chance to be free now.

If Trump goes to the funeral, I will vomit.

[dustyscamp]

37. If this is true then maybe we could have a more peaceful North Korea?

Trump could possibly try for another peace talk with the new leader

[mercuryblues]

41. North Korea denies that Kim sent Trump 'a nice note'

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-19/north-korea-denies-that-kim-sent-trump-a-nice-note

SEOUL — North Korea on Sunday dismissed as “ungrounded” President Trump’s comment that he recently received “a nice note” from the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un.
Trump said during a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic Saturday that “I received a nice note from him recently. It was a nice note. I think we’re doing fine.” Trump also defended now-stalled nuclear diplomacy with Kim, saying the U.S. would have been at war with North Korea if he had not been elected.

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that there was no letter addressed to Trump recently by “the supreme leadership,” a reference to Kim.

It said it would examine why the U.S. leadership released “the ungrounded story” to the media.


“The relations between the top leaders of [North Korea] and the U.S. are not an issue to be taken up just for diversion nor it should be misused for meeting selfish purposes,” the statement said.

Kim and Trump have met three times and exchanged letters and envoys on many occasions since 2018, when they began talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The two leaders have built some personal relationships, and Trump once said that he and Kim “fell in love.”

At the time it seemed odd to me that NK would take the time to address this. I thought maybe they wanted to embarrass trump. It didn't quite fit that narrative. This makes more sense. Kim couldn't have sent the letter...Dead men tell no tales.

[Iggo]

42. Trump says whatever comes into his mind.

He's what we call around these parts: A Liar.

[soryang]

47. It's a cut and paste job from Kim Jong-il's glass cased cadaver

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/preserved-forever-kim-jong-il-will-get-the-lenin-treatment-6288972.html