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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:02 pm

Kim Jong Un can be seen struggling to walk down stairs in a new North Korean propaganda film
Ryan Pickrell
Tue, February 1, 2022, 6:36 PM

• Kim Jong Un was spotted struggling to make his way down a set of stairs in a new propaganda film.
  Kim has had mobility issues before, and the footage comes amid speculation about his weight loss.
  Experts watch Kim's health closely because it is a key sign of the health of the regime.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can be seen struggling to walk down a set of stairs in a new propaganda film celebrating the country's achievements in the last year. The film's release follows significant speculation about the young dictator's noticeable weight loss.

Kendra wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 11:20 am Huh. Just this morning the dopes at Fox and friends were talking about Biden's visit and somewhat snarkily wondered if Biden would take a walk across the line like Trump did.

What you need to know about the covid crisis hitting North Korea

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Min Joo Kim
May 18, 2022 at 7:20 a.m. EDT

SEOUL — The coronavirus pandemic has finally penetrated North Korea, an impoverished country with a fragile health-care system and no vaccine program.

If the figures are accurate, the country appears to be experiencing the beginnings of the disaster that the rest of the world faced in early 2020: a national health crisis that will quickly overwhelm a health-care system already under duress, with the most vulnerable people at greatest risk of death. North Korea is one of two countries in the world that has no coronavirus vaccines after twice refusing shipments from Covax, the U.N.-backed initiative providing doses to countries that need them.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... -outbreak/

South Korea and US fire missiles in warning to North Korea
South Korea and the US launched eight missiles on Monday, in response to a volley of ballistic missiles fired by North Korea the previous day.

It comes as Pyongyang continues to escalate its missile tests.

South Korea's president Yoon Suk-yeol said his government would respond sternly to any provocation from its northern neighbour.

"We will make sure there isn't a single crack in protecting the lives and property of our people," he said.

Speaking at a war memorial event in Seoul, he added that North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes "are reaching the level of threatening not only peace on the Korean Peninsula but also in Northeast Asia and the world", according to Yonhap.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:37 pm I'm no fan, but that didn't look like a struggle to walk down stairs. That was a slope with boards bolted to it. He didn't do anything I wouldn't have done.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:08 pm Not a critique, just an observation, but whatever caused him to lose weight earlier seems to no longer be in play.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 10:02 pm Did something happen? Is this in response to the joint exercise?

North Korea Sparks Speculation With Surprise Show Of Kim Jong Un's Daughter
The little-known daughter's appearance at a missile launch site may signal she'll succeed her dictator father, suggested an analyst.

HYUNG-JIN KIM AP
Nov 19, 2022, 06:01 AM EST

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has unveiled the little-known daughter of its leader Kim Jong Un at a missile launch site, attracting keen attention on a fourth-generation member of the dynastic family that has ruled North Korea for more than seven decades.

The North’s state media said Saturday that Kim had observed the launch of its new type of intercontinental ballistic missile with his wife Ri Sol Ju, their “beloved daughter” and other officials the previous day. Kim said the launch of the Hwasong-17 missile — the North’s longest-range, nuclear-capable missile — proved he has a reliable weapon to contain U.S.-led military threats.

The main Rodong Sinmun newspaper also released a slew of photos of Kim watching a soaring missile from a distance with his daughter.

Other photos showed her with her hair pulled back, wearing a white coat and a pair of red shoes as she walked in hand-in-hand with her father by a huge missile atop a launch truck.

It’s the first time for North Korea’s state media to mention the daughter or publicize her photos. KCNA didn’t provide further details about her like her name and age.

Much of Kim’s private life is still unknown. But South Korean media reported Kim married Ri, a former singer, in 2009, and that the couple have three children who were born in 2010, 2013 and 2017.




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-ko ... 5b6095a3b5

North Korean food shortage seems to be worsening, South Korea says

Soo-hyang Choi
Wed, February 15, 2023 at 6:06 AM GMT+1

SEOUL (Reuters) -A North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated, South Korea said on Wednesday, as a newspaper reported that North Korea has cut rations to its soldiers for the first time in more than two decades.

North Korea has effectively acknowledged serious food shortages, South Korea's unification ministry said, referring to a North Korean state media report this month about plans for an "urgent" ruling party meeting on agriculture.

"Its food situation seems to have deteriorated," the South's unification ministry, which handles relations with North Korea, said in a statement.

North Korea has over recent decades suffered serious food shortages, including famine in the 1990s, often a result of natural disasters such as floods damaging harvests.

The isolated country is under strict international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes and in recent years its limited border trade was virtually choked off by self-imposed lockdowns aimed at preventing COVID-19.

South Korea's DongA Ilbo newspaper said on Wednesday that North Korea has reduced daily food rations to its soldiers for the first time since 2000, citing an unidentified senior South Korean official.

The unification ministry said it could not confirm details of the media report but it and other agencies were monitoring the situation.

North Korea's state news agency KCNA reported on Feb. 6 that the Workers' Party of Korea had called a meeting of the party's Central Committee for late February for the "very important and urgent task to establish the correct strategy for the development of agriculture".

The South's unification ministry said it was rare for North Korea to call such a special meeting.

Last month, the U.S.-based monitoring group 38 North said North Korea's "food availability has likely fallen below the bare minimum with regard to human needs", with food insecurity at its worst since the famines of the 1990s.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korean ... 28451.html