SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) - What's going on with Kim Jong Un? Is he sick? Worried about Covid-19? Consumed by an economic crisis? Battling internal threats?. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - What's going on with Kim Jong Un? Is he sick? Worried about Covid-19? Consumed by an economic crisis? Battling internal threats?
"We need to check our assumptions about the leadership," said Soo Kim, a Rand Corp policy analyst who previously worked at the Central Intelligence Agency. He's even given his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, a more prominent role in relations with the US and South Korea, an unprecedented delegation of power that risks elevating a potential rival from the family's so-called Mount Paektu bloodline.
The lawmakers held another briefing shortly after to play down their remarks, saying they were only sharing the spy agency's interpretation. Subsequent reports that Kim was dead or incapacitated followed, only for him to turn up at a May 1 fertiliser plant visit looking healthy, if still overweight. No matter who's in charge, North Korean leaders have strong incentives to preserve the regime and Kim's strategy of seeking sanctions relief from US President Donald Trump by building a more dangerous nuclear arsenal.
Kim told a party meeting earlier this month that he wouldn't accept international handouts due to worries of spreading the virus. "Kim may need to share that authority with expert groups to better handle the crisis while minimising damage to himself."
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