ghost Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 North Korea says Kim Jong Un attended factory opening Reporting by Margaret Brennan A North Korean news agency announced on Saturday that Kim Jong Un attended a factory opening, which would be his first public appearance in 20 days amid worldwide rumors that he was gravely ill. A senior administration official contacted by CBS News said the U.S. was monitoring and trying to verify the reports. The government-run daily published confirmation, and North Korean state-run media KCNA published photos it said showed Kim at the ceremony. The photos were published in North Korean paper Rodung Sinmun, the official paper of the Workers' Party, as well as the South Korean news site Yonhap. The U.S. has been attempting to verify the status of Kim's health and whereabouts since he failed to appear at a national holiday event on April 15. kim-jong-un-new-photo-2020-05-01.jpg Kim Jong Un in a photo North Korean paper Rodung Sinmun published on May 2, 2020. Rodung Sinmun According to Reuters, KCNA reported that Kim cut a ribbon at a ceremony at the opening of a fertilizer plant and those attending the event "burst into thunderous cheers of 'hurrah!' for the Supreme Leader who is commanding the all-people general march for accomplishing the great cause of prosperity." According to KCNA, several senior North Korean officials, including his younger sister Kim Yo Jong, attended the ceremony with him. Rumors surfaced about Kim's health when he was absent from events on April 15 honoring the 108th birthday of his grandfather and the country's founder Kim Il Sung. President Trump weighed in on Kim's health earlier this week, saying "I do know how he's doing, relatively speaking. We will see. You'll probably be hearing in the not-too-distant future." kim-jong-un-new-photos-2020-05-01.jpg Yahoo News He is back and looks very much alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aum Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Disappears and appears like a ghost, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 23 minutes ago, aum said: Disappears and appears like a ghost, eh? No nothing like a ghost. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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aum Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 10:53 PM, ghost said: No nothing like a ghost. 🤣 Of course not like you @ghost. Like a real ghost, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky19 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 The end of another fake news media bulshit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 1 minute ago, sky19 said: The end of another fake news media bulshit... Can't really blame the media on this, because the intelligence services from different countries have said it. But to be fair South Korea has always maintained Kim Jong Un is alive and well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky19 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, ghost said: Can't really blame the media on this, because the intelligence services from different countries have said it. But to be fair South Korea has always maintained Kim Jong Un is alive and well. Weak and misleading is a media agency that relies on intelligence agencies, it's a small step from information to complete control! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 1 minute ago, sky19 said: Weak and misleading is a media agency that relies on intelligence agencies, it's a small step from information to complete control! If the North Korean state apparatus can convince their citizenry that their supreme leader is a living god, they can obviously control most, if not all the information coming out of the country. While I don't blame the media for this, they've been a bit too comfortable speculating on things that don't really concern them, or things they otherwise know nothing about, for far too long. At this point, North Korea might as well be playing us all for laughs. Here's an easy experiment on western media - selectively leak information you care nothing about, and see how the NYT cohort reacts. What I'd really like to know is who gets to be the next supreme leader after Kim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ha91 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Probably a double! Looks a bit different! concentrate on his face, beer belly and height and then compare it all with his posture in pictures from earlier openings etc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 North Korean defectors say sorry after false Kim Jong-un speculation Thae Yong-ho and Ji Seong-ho both said in South Korea that leader was gravely ill or dead Reuters in Seoul Mon 4 May 2020 12.03 BSTLast modified on Mon 4 May 2020 12.52 BST Kim Jong-un attends the completion of a fertiliser plant north of Pyongyang in a photograph released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on Saturday. Photograph: KCNA/Reuters A former senior North Korean diplomat has apologised after saying Kim Jong-un was probably so ill he could not stand, days before he emerged on state media smoking and walking briskly at an event attended by hundreds of officials. Kim disappeared from state media for three weeks, an unusually long time, leading to concerns over the nuclear-armed state in the event of an unexpected succession. High-profile defectors from the country speculated that Kim was suffering from a grave illness or could even be dead. North Korean media on Saturday broadcast video of Kim during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the inauguration of a fertiliser plant. One of the defectors, Thae Yong-ho, former deputy ambassador to Britain and one of two defectors elected to the South Korean parliament last month, on Monday issued an apology for his claims. “I am aware that one of the reasons why many of you voted for me as a lawmaker is with the expectations of an accurate analysis and projections on North Korean issues,” he said in a statement. “I feel the blame and heavy responsibility.“ “Whatever the reasons, I apologise to everyone.“ The other prominent defector elected to parliament for the opposition, Ji Seong-ho, had said in a media interview he was 99% certain that Kim had died after cardiovascular surgery and an official announcement would come as soon as Saturday. “I have pondered on myself for the past few days, and felt the weight of the position that I’m in,” Ji said in a statement. “As a public figure, I will behave carefully going forward.“ Ji had told Reuters on Friday he had received information about Kim’s death from a source he could not disclose. South Korea’s ruling Democratic party criticised the pair for carelessness. One party member urged them to be excluded from the intelligence and defence committees, while another said the defectors contributed little to South Korean society. Ji’s party acknowledged he had made “rash, careless” remarks but criticised the ruling party for undermining the two and “instigating hatred” towards them. The blunders highlight the difficulty of getting reliable information on North Korea. The secretive country has for decades kept tight control on information, and news on the health and whereabouts of its leader are shared with only a handful of most trusted aides. Thae wrote in his memoir that when former leader Kim Jong-il died in 2011, even the foreign minister did not know until ministry staff were called to watch a state media announcement. The South Korea government, which gathers intelligence from various sources, had urged caution on speculation about Kim’s health and said it saw no sign anything serious had happened. Daily NK, a Seoul-based news outlet with sources inside North Korea, had reported in April that Kim was recovering from a cardiovascular procedure. The Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufus Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 i like his sister 😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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