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Lil’ Kim: should the West prepare for chaos in North Korea?

What’s up with North Korea’s leader?

10 July 2021

9:00 AM

10 July 2021

9:00 AM

On 24 June, North Korean state TV aired a short interview with an unnamed Pyongyang resident. The man, who appeared to be in his fifties, said that his fellow countrymen had all been left heartbroken and in tears when they saw the new, ‘emaciated’ look of Kim Jong-un. The country’s hereditary dictator, who hadn’t been seen in public for a month, recently re-emerged looking rather different.

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