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In reply to the discussion: Japanese TV broadcast that Kim Jong Un is dead. [View all]Princess Turandot
(4,916 posts)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.
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Exploratory to find how if he even had one? I mean you do have to be pretty heartless to
cstanleytech
Apr 2020
#27
Sending in the Chinese bigwig embalmers? They gonna display him for 10 years like Stalin?
Baclava
Apr 2020
#24
Power vacuum with attendant struggles in a rogue state with nuke weapons
Cirque du So-What
Apr 2020
#16
Nearly everything. His ex wives and his current one are still alive after all.
cstanleytech
Apr 2020
#31