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MORE rumors claim Kim Jong Un is dead: China-backed journalist claims North Korean dictator has died, Japanese report says he’s in a coma – but satellite photos show his private train visited holiday home THIS WEEK
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Rumors surrounding Kim Jong Un’s health intensified today as Asian media outlets claimed that he had died or is currently ‘gravely ill’.
The vice director of Hong Kong Satellite Television (HKSTV) Shijian Xingzou says that a ‘very solid source’ has told her the North Korean despot, 36, is already dead.
She has 15 million followers on Chinese social media Weibo, and is also the niece of one of the country’s foreign ministers.
Separately, a Japanese media outlet claims that Kim has gone into a ‘vegetative state’ after he underwent heart surgery earlier in the month.