A lot of people are asking about the increasing rumors re: KJU’s health.

Well, we are not going to report on them until something crystal clear starts to line up.

Here’s why we won’t report until then:
Right now, there are broadly two cannons of rumor circulating:

A) KJU underwent heart surgery last week, it didn’t go well, and he’s either dead or close to death;

B) KJU underwent some kind of surgery & is recuperating well outside of Pyongyang, is in control but unavailable.
After two days of hearing sources reference second-hand knowledge of one theory or the other, we started to realize there is a major echo chamber effect.

I.e. the two sets of rumors are all evolving variations on prior material
There are credible people sharing info related to both theories.

What is uncertain is where it’s all originally coming from.
And there are things which make little sense.

On the rumors emanating from Chinese social media, re: Chinese medical teams providing support...

Would NK really invite Chinese surgeons to goto Pyongyang for this kind of support?

If so, why are these rumors not being censored?
And on indicators Kim Jong Un is recovering from something, not seriously ill, on his feet, and somewhere near Wonsan...

Is foreign intel on a subject of total secrecy in NK - KJU’s health - that good?

(Consider no outsider knew of Kim Jong Il’s death for two whole days.)
For now there are too many varying indicators.

Not enough details line up one way or the other.

So we won’t know which of these two rumors are credible until state media reveals something.

Plus, it still remains possible both are wrong.
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