An online media report saying Kim Jong-un underwent a medical procedure is fuelling new speculation about the North Korean leader's health
, a Seoul-based website that gathers information from informants inside the isolated nation, reported on Tuesday that Kim underwent a "cardiovascular surgical procedure" and has now mostly recovered. It was impossible to immediately verify the report, which theKim's health has deteriorated in recent months due to heavy smoking, obesity and overwork, theNorth Korea's state news agency recently released photographs of Kim Jong-un on Mount Paektu in December.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends a politburo meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday, in this picture supplied by the North Korean government on Sunday.Pyongyang fired multiple short-range missiles last week which Seoul officials said were also part of the Kim Il Sung birthday celebration. Kim didn't attend related celebrations on April 15, one of the biggest days on the North Korean calendar.
Kim's health is one of the state's most closely guarded secrets, typically only known by a handful of people in the inner leadership circle.Officials from South Korea's Unification Ministry and National Intelligence Service said they couldn't immediately confirm the report. CNN cited an anonymous US official who said Kim was in "grave danger" after an unspecified surgery which had "complications.
Kim, 36 and a heavy smoker, has been shown in state media in recent months appearing at military drills and riding a white horse on the country's revered Mount Paektu. State propaganda says his grandfather used as the mountain as a guerilla base to fight Japanese colonial occupiers.
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