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An extensive intelligence assessment has detected “no unusual movements” in North Korea, South Korea’s Minister of Unification said Monday, amid mounting rumors that leader Kim Jong Un is suffering from ill health. https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/seoul-confident-that-north-shows-no-unusual-movements-amid-kims-health-rumors/?t=1587972975538
The minister’s remarks follow comments from a top adviser to South Korea’s President that Kim was “alive and well” and had been in the city of Wonsan for the past two weeks. https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/seoul-confident-that-north-shows-no-unusual-movements-amid-kims-health-rumors/?t=1587972975538
Seoul emphasized that the U.S. and ROK were on the same page regarding Kim’s health rumors, with the minister referring to comments last week by a top Washington military official that the DPRK leader remained in control of his country’s armed forces. https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/seoul-confident-that-north-shows-no-unusual-movements-amid-kims-health-rumors/?t=1587972975538
“I want to underscore that the judgments of information between ROK and the U.S. are not considerably different,” the unification minister said.
“These sort of remarks are not done without reason.” https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/seoul-confident-that-north-shows-no-unusual-movements-amid-kims-health-rumors/?t=1587972975538
“These sort of remarks are not done without reason.” https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/seoul-confident-that-north-shows-no-unusual-movements-amid-kims-health-rumors/?t=1587972975538
Seoul’s unification minister on Monday also appeared to further respond to the initial report by Daily NK.
“Hyangsan Hospital… does not have the facility to perform [such] surgery,” he said.
“Hyangsan Hospital… does not have the facility to perform [such] surgery,” he said.
