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IDemo

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3. On the other hand,,,
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:48 PM
Oct 2014
Sorry, North Korea Conspiracists: Kim Jong Un Is Probably Just Sick

Rumors that the Supreme Leader's month-long vanishing act signals a coup or a power shuffle are likely false, experts say

It has been precisely a month since corpulent young dictator Kim Jong Un disappeared from public view, prompting frenzied speculation about his health and the state of political play in North Korea.

Kim was last seen at a Sept. 3 concert, ensconced in a red easy chair next to his wife, Ri Sol Ju. Late last month, the youthful marshal was a no-show at a meeting of North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature. The cloistered nation’s state-run TV aired images of his seat at parliament—empty. Rumors began flying as the disappearance ran into weeks that Kim was either dying or had been deposed. But North Korea experts say that the likeliest reason is also the simplest: That the Supreme Leader is sick.

http://time.com/3460126/kim-jong-un-north-korea-disappeared/
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