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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: Kim Jong-Un is live and well
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52508437?at_campaign=64&at_custom3=%40BBCBreaking&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=FEB254DE-8BF3-11EA-B907-E0C596E8478F&at_medium=custom7Looks like the coward was hiding out
KCNA news agency reports that the North Korean leader cut the ribbon at the opening of a fertiliser factory.
It adds that people at the factory "broke into thunderous cheers of hurrah" when he appeared.
The reported appearance - his first since a state media event on 12 April - comes amid global speculation over his health.
Mr Kim was accompanied by several senior North Korean officials, including his sister Kim Yo Jong, KCNA added.
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Breaking: Kim Jong-Un is live and well (Original Post)
malaise
May 2020
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Celerity
(43,298 posts)1. The latest reports from North Korean media could not be independently confirmed and no pictures were
provided.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)2. Fertilizer factory, indeed.
lpbk2713
(42,752 posts)8. Must be the NK branch of the Trump White House.
...
Kid Berwyn
(14,868 posts)13. Trump sez huge opportunities in NK, an "economic powerhouse"
The reality:
... Kim Jong-uns authoritarian regime has been classified as the worlds most perilous investment destination for business, Verisk Maplecroft said in a report published before the talks began.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/trump-says-north-korea-can-be-economic-power-but-experts-disagree.html
Perhaps a short-fingered short-seller might make a buck.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)3. FUCK!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. Yeah sure
Pics?
malaise
(268,903 posts)9. I posted a BBC link
Ask them for pics
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)10. I wasn't asking you
But the BBC is reporting something KCNA said. The BBC has no way of knowing whether the KCNA report is true.
underpants
(182,748 posts)5. Good to know.
GP6971
(31,133 posts)6. Yonhap News Agency is reporting the same. n/t
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)11. Yonhap also adds this...
https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200502000552325?section=nk/nk
But KCNA has not released photos of him or the ceremony yet.
tblue37
(65,290 posts)22. Photo:
?quality=90&auto=webp
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)23. Odd looking factory, no?
Is he standing outside of the factory?
tblue37
(65,290 posts)26. It looks like the venue in this (not recent) pic:
?crop=900:600&width=440
MFM008
(19,804 posts)7. you cant always get what you want
.............................................
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)12. Shit, 2020 can't even get this one right.
Maybe it's one of his body doubles
Harker
(14,012 posts)16. Oh, well. n/t
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)17. Not Surprised.
Remember reading that they might have spotted his personal train at a luxury resort he likes to frequent. Probably his version of self quarantine, because COVID-19 isn't in North Korea.....or so they announced when China is just north of them...
Itchinjim
(3,085 posts)18. Crap.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)19. Maybe he has doubles... n/t
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)20. His chin certainly has doubles
tblue37
(65,290 posts)21. Alive, but not necessarily well. nt
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)24. Ribbon cutting at a bullshit factory
Is the White House opening a satellite office?
Raine
(30,540 posts)25. DAMN, I should've known it was too good
too be true.